America’s official chief diplomat is the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, but so far his activities have been fairly limited. Instead, the role of principal US emissary is currently filled by the ...

So you thought the spectacle was just smoke and mirrors? Is that why you’re shocked? You didn’t think I would do anything? How can I have allowed something as boring as a tariff war to take over your ...

John XXIII, the pope who initiated the council in 1962, described it as an aggiornamento, a ‘bringing up to date’, an attempt to ‘throw open the windows of the church and let the fresh air of the ...

In the more fortunate and vastly different condition of life under civil government, the ideal of independence had become a dangerous chimera. Between the late 1770s and the 1790s the arguments of ...

Mussorgsky’s alcoholism caught up with him before he could finish Khovanshchina. At the time of his death in 1881 ...

Classic’ may not be quite the right word for this scary, messy film – it’s about forms of rage that don’t ...

My former colleague Nicholas Mostyn writes gloomily that ‘we will likely lose speech, mobility and continence and be beset by excruciating pain – but no doctor will ever give us a terminal diagnosis.’ ...

The Queen Mary University of London branch of the University and College Union, of which I am co-chair, hosts a ...

I asked Raji Sourani of the Palestine Centre for Human Rights if it was true that Gazans can hear the difference ...

Admirers of Morris the revolutionary have shared his uncertainties. George Bernard Shaw thought Morris’s late-life addiction to scribbling prose romances a lowering hobby – why not take up making ...

Colombia produced a record 2600 tons of cocaine in 2023 and at least a third of it passed through Ecuador – ...

If the British government is to be believed, only one civilian has been killed by its armed forces during its air ...