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Around dawn on Friday, a McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle from the US Air Force’s 494th Fighter Squadron was shot down over south-western Iran....
If you follow the courts, you will certainly have come across Olympus Spa v. Armstrong. On March 12, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth...
Two weeks before the 2024 presidential election, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tweeted that “the FDA’s war on public health is about to end.” He then...
Pakistan, the world’s only Muslim nuclear power, has traditionally been an international sideshow. No longer. The country has reportedly been...
Some days I wonder if I’m going mad – and you don’t need to be a psychiatrist to know that’s not a good sign. I work in a specialist NHS...
A state deciding when it may end a human life outside war is always crossing a line, even when it insists it is doing so for humane reasons. Two...
At first sight it might seem like the triumph of reason over ideology. The Times is reporting that Ed Miliband has given way and is poised to announce...
President Trump has now told us something very important about the war with Iran. Ponder his address to the nation last night and you discover how he...
Nigel Farage, who celebrates his 62nd birthday today, has spent the best part of three decades positioning himself as the outsider who might one day...
There’s a distinctive glow of virtue that emanates from people recharging their electric cars in public places. I call it the Light of the Charge...
When the Iranian ambassador to the United Kingdom, Seyed Ali Mousavi, said RAF Fairford was a ‘legitimate target’ on Times Radio this Tuesday,...
London is full of little ecosystems: areas that are distinctive by virtue of their purpose or history and where individual elements make up a sum...
The Israel Museum in Jerusalem (IMJ) – home to impressive collections of ancient and modern art and some of the world’s rarest antiquities, such...
Apart from windfall revenues from higher oil and gas prices and the political leverage that comes from supplying the Global South with fertilisers,...
It’s a funny thing, being a feminist surrounded by women on weight-loss drugs. As someone who recognises the health risks of being clinically obese,...
Colm Tóibín is a master of understatement, his work characterized by great emotional intelligence coupled with redoubtable restraint. This is his...
The hawthorn hedges are white with blossom; the countryside looks set for a wedding. Even in the small garden of my hospital, spring is inescapable....
Like Amsterdam, like New York City, Washington is a rat city. Old buildings and moisture create the conditions for them to thrive. Rats provide the...
Pam Bondi’s departure as attorney general has prompted the usual Kremlinologist speculation. One theory has it that Donald Trump was furious that...
Sixty years ago, I first gazed out on the Strait of Hormuz from the Musandam peninsula of Oman. I was there as private secretary to my godfather,...
Covent Garden’s new Ring cycle has reached Siegfried, and once again, you can only marvel at Wagner’s Shakespeare-like ability to anticipate...
In a suburban Melbourne industrial estate, hidden in a clutter of brutalist buildings and parked trucks, tomorrow’s world is taking shape. Here, an...
The Prince of Wales seeks to assure us that, as a friend puts into his mouth, ‘I might not be at church every day, but I believe in it.’ That...
Even if you’re not a dog expert, you probably know enough to laugh at the breed of my resident barn dog. Chow Chows are not exactly cooperative, and...
Ever since World War Two, America’s aircraft carrier fleets have served as imposing instruments of imperial power, roaming the oceans to cow...
As the Artemis II mission thundered into the sky last night, a full moon rose above Cape Canaveral. It was no coincidence: the timing of the lift-off...
When so much contemporary art is riven with obscurity and angst, it is disorienting, at first, to encounter something as straightforwardly enjoyable...
Prediction: by the time you read this, the joint US-Israeli operation in Iran will be all but over. In fact, it had mostly ended by the start of...
The surprising thing isn’t that Donald Trump fired his attorney general Pam Bondi and appointed Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche her temporary...
As world leaders grapple with Donald Trump’s second term, his war with Iran has accelerated European multipolarism, with leaders on the continent...
Unless something shifts profoundly in the current direction of the US war on Iran, the Iranian regime appears set to survive this round of...
After months, years and even decades of dismay about the state of law and order in this country, a leader of one of Britain’s most renowned...
At first sight it might seem like the triumph of reason over ideology. The Times is reporting that Ed Miliband has given way and is poised to announce...
President Trump has now told us something very important about the war with Iran. Ponder his address to the nation last night and you discover how he...
Dissonance is necessary around Easter. Fluffy lambs and chicks are everywhere: on cards and decorations, in countless chocolate forms and adorning...
I have spent a small portion of the past week wondering what I would do if I thought communists were about to take over our country. At the more civil...
Lisa Haseldine has narrated this article for you to listen to. The quiet hillside by Longyearbyen’s church gives visitors to the capital of...
Someone in Brussels has a sense of humour. One of the euro elves let it be known this week that the deal which the UK hoped to sign this summer has...
Ever since MONBEG GENIUS finished a close third in the Ultima Handicap Chase at the Cheltenham Festival three years ago, it looked only a matter of...
Nigel Farage has spent the best part of three decades positioning himself as the outsider who might one day break down the door of No. 10. It’s been...
It’s a great shame that Elsa Schiaparelli is less widely known than her rival Chanel. Perhaps that’s down to how difficult her name is to...
‘No one pretends that modern services will fill the churches. But adult converts ought to be able to step naturally into being worshippers. How...
To mark the celebration of the Annunciation (‘Lady Day’, 25 March), a friend sends me an image of her favourite picture of the angel’s...
Damian Thompson has narrated this article for you to listen to. On the afternoon of Easter Sunday last year, Pope Francis was driven through St...
The surprising thing isn’t that Donald Trump fired his attorney general Pam Bondi and appointed Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche her temporary...
Dante’s Beach, Ravenna I was at the wheel of our Land Rover Defender on Wednesday with my middle daughter Magdalena (18) en route to her weekly...
The hawthorn hedges are white with blossom; the countryside looks set for a wedding. Even in the small garden of my hospital, spring is inescapable....
Why do we still struggle to say what we really mean? In an age when we’re all encouraged to overshare online, we can be remarkably evasive in real...
When you have children, it’s incumbent upon you to develop a variety of new skills – paramount amongst which is the ability to ignore...
Trade-offs and compromises are part of all government policy. One day’s priority can easily be eclipsed by the next day’s events. As a recent...
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