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 ...

In the more fortunate and vastly different condition of life under civil government, the ideal of independence had become a ...

My former colleague Nicholas Mostyn writes gloomily that ‘we will likely lose speech, mobility and continence and be beset by ...

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

John XXIII, the pope who initiated the council in 1962, described it as an aggiornamento, a ‘bringing up to date’, an attempt ...

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 ...

Going into the second round of Ecuador’s elections on 13 April, the polls had the centre-left candidate, Luisa González, neck-and-neck with the far-right president, Daniel Noboa. The night before, ...

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