For many of the West’s leaders, the Beijing model of enlightened autocracy is looking increasingly appealing

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Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the French experience from the liberation of 1944 through to the student unrest of 1968

How has Italy’s Giuseppe Conte defied the odds and become a consequential political figure in his own right?

Former popstar Bobi Wine has pledged to exhaust all legal options before taking the fight to the streets for a non-violent resolution

It is clear that the EU is still thinking of its thousand different ways to win, and it is doing so by bombarding the younger generations with pro-EU messages

Daniel Pipes’s quest to understand the English national character leaves him none the wiser

As much as Navalny believes in his work, he believes more strongly in the need to be a participant in Russia’s political drama

If our representatives aren’t reading these weighty documents, then who is?

Ministers have always needed people to carry their bags and to tell them what a wonderful job they are doing