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In 2015, Clyde Prestowitz’s book Japan Restored imagined a Japanese century emerging from upheavals such as an Israeli attack on Iran. While...
In an interview conducted a few days after the beginning of Lent, Reform UK’s Muslim home affairs spokesperson, Zia Yusuf, outlined a new policy to...
When the Women’s Library opened a century ago, the movement it documented appeared triumphant. Most British women had gained the vote in 1918, and...
“She had no more surprises for him; the unexpected in her behaviour was the only thing to expect,” Henry James wrote in his novel Daisy Miller....
Sheffield was still an industrial powerhouse when George Orwell suggested that it “could justly claim to be called the ugliest town in the Old...
Terms of reference for the independent inquiry into grooming gangs in England and Wales have been agreed. The formal process starts in less than two...
Appointing Matt Brittin, a former Google executive, as BBC director general is smarter than critics admit. Although he was on the board of the...
After meeting European Union foreign ministers this week, Volodymyr Zelenskyy voiced exasperation over the continued blocking of a €90bn EU loan to...
In Putting Wales First, a recently translated history of Plaid Cymru’s political ideas, Prof Richard Wyn Jones references a 1940s newspaper...
The death penalty is morally repugnant. How much more so, then, when it is made the default, must be speedily carried out, cannot be subject to...
Opening up family courts in England and Wales to journalists was never intended to solve all their problems. This is a public service that, like so...
The fifth week of Donald Trump’s illegal war on Iran has confirmed the absence of any overarching strategy. The US continues to hit Iranian targets...
China promoted elections in Myanmar, while those fighting for democracy boycotted them. That tells you everything about the shift to a supposedly...
Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, is a chaotic person, but his Make America Healthy Again (Maha) agenda tends to follow a predictable...
Singin’ in the Rain it will never be, but Trainspotting the Musical is not as improbable as it seems. The yellow-brick road from cult novel to film...
Debate about online harms has tended to focus on abusive and hateful content. But the form in which content is delivered is at least as important....
For years, official Chinese rhetoric on Iran invoked their shared historical status as grand civilisations that have struggled against western...
For the government, news that public satisfaction with the NHS has increased for the first time since 2019 came as a huge relief. After 20 difficult...
In the lead-up to Denmark’s snap election on Tuesday, it was revealed that blood supplies were flown into Greenland in January in order to treat...
The intense focus on Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu’s war on Iran has meant scant attention paid to the Israeli war in Lebanon. Yet almost...
The conclusion of the UK competition watchdog’s investigation of vet chains will come as a relief to millions of pet owners. Last year’s...
Whatever else Donald Trump’s “pause” is, it is not a ceasefire. Iranian barrages targeted Israel, Gulf Arab states and northern Iraq on Tuesday,...
It must be tough for Donald Trump: starting a war with Iran, but finding it terribly inconvenient to finish it before collecting a shiny prize from...
In 2002, divisions on the left allowed Jean-Marie Le Pen to shock France by reaching the run-off in that year’s presidential election. Lionel...
Given the frayed and depleted state of the public sector, it is not surprising that prisons in England and Wales are struggling to escape from a sense...
Progress is possible. Over two decades, global child mortality plummeted. There were many reasons for a 39% reduction in deaths in lower and middle...
The public health measures taken in response to this month’s meningitis outbreak in Kent so far appear to be working. Two young people have...
This week, contemporary art’s worst-kept secret was exposed when street artist Banksy was revealed to be 52-year-old Robin Gunningham, thanks to an...
The government has raised tariffs to protect the steel industry. It also nationalised the UK’s remaining blast furnaces last year to keep them...
Shortly after the US and Israel began their illegal assault on Iran, with the US president still preening himself over the kidnapping of Venezuela’s...
In his later years, Jürgen Habermas was sometimes described as “the last European” – a reference to his passionate commitment to the ideals of...
In an age of attention-grabbing algorithms and amplified outrage on social media, politicians have few incentives to make arguments at any length....
BBC Radio 1’s Greg James reached the halfway point of his 1,000km bike ride for Comic Relief just outside Doncaster, in South Yorkshire, on Tuesday...
The general election of July 2024 did not just call time on a decade and a half of Conservative rule. It also delivered the most pro-Union parliament...
No one who walks, cycles or drives around London, or many of the world’s big cities, could fail to notice the vastly increased size of the typical...
Donald Trump would like you to know that he is winning the war with Iran. So comprehensively, in fact, that he now needs Nato’s help. The western...
The government’s granting of a stay of execution to popular courses including health and business studies BTecs, while alternatives are developed,...
In the years since so-called weight-loss jabs entered widespread use, there have been reports that these drugs may not just reduce food cravings, but...
In a scene that might have come from a dystopian novel, books were being stamped with “Human Authored” logos at this week’s London Book Fair....
When Russia launched its full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the international condemnation from Europe and elsewhere was loud and clear. Leaders...
For most of the postwar period, the state of Baden-Württemberg was both a bastion of German conservatism and – as the home of Mercedes-Benz and...
Soaring prices at the pump, the scrapping of mortgage deals, and the prospect of higher prices for everything from food to smartphones. The US-Israeli...
This week 250 years ago, Adam Smith published An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations – and invented economics. The...
Britain is one of many countries that would benefit from the replacement of brutal theocracy with democratic government in Tehran. The Iranian people...
When European leaders were blindsided in January by Donald Trump’s unilateral abduction of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, their immediate...
What should Britain do when war in the Middle East sends energy prices soaring? If the strait of Hormuz were blocked for the month of fighting that...
New analysis from Cancer Research UK, revealing a 29% drop in the rate of people dying from cancer compared with 40 years ago, is a vital counterpoint...
The future of electric cars arrived this week in China. The world’s biggest car seller, BYD, unveiled a new battery giving its latest electric...
The recommendation that the names of MPs’ staff should be removed from a decades-old register, made by the House of Commons standards committee, is...
A World Book Day question: which children’s author is name-checked in Stormzy’s song Superheroes (and appears in the video for Mel Made Me Do It)...
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