“Is this just expensive virtue-signalling?” a reporter asked Sadiq Khan at the event marking the official launch of the new ...

Aleppo could become the vortex of a regional and even global conflict.

A year and a half into his second term, the president has failed at both objectives, and his government stands on the brink ...

By the time the debate began, we were familiar with the arguments for and against. We have heard them all: the case for ...

Ireland is also sitting on a healthy €13b tax receipt from Apple, after the European Union ordered the tech giant to pay. So ...

The re-election of Donald Trump to the White House is generally thought to be positive for Putin at a diplomatic level. For ...

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This latter possibility may seem to be pushing optimism to its limits, yet it was the subject of an intriguing editorial in ...

The great neurologist offered a lesson in treating our fellow humans with care and true attention.

The former chancellor’s memoir Freedom reveals how her childhood in East Germany helped forge a doctrine of moral decency and ...

The philanthropist has been fighting global disease for 25 years. He believes the world is at a dangerous tipping point.

The last government thought Britain had developed a “ sick note culture ”; in this week’s column, Andrew Marr reports one ...