The purpose of foreign policy is the protection of core national interests.’ So, which national interests are the ‘core’ ones ...

The Northern Irish poet worked in such a factory to support himself while undertaking a part-time literature degree, during ...

Elections in Peru.

Chinese architecture in the Mao era.

Starmer, a former state prosecutor with an inflated sense of his own rectitude, had earlier insisted that due process was ...

Ben Lerner once described Gerald Murnane’s The Plains (1982) as a ‘bizarre masterpiece that can feel less like something you’ve read than something you’ve dreamed’. Something similar could be said of ...

Adrian Wooldridge’s recent Centrists of the World Unite!: The Lost Genius of Liberalism does not just echo The Communist Manifesto in its language, it also mirrors its basic structure. Marx and Engels ...

The following interview was first published in Frankfurter Rundschau on 28 March. The Israeli-American war against Iran has thrown financial markets into turmoil and there is growing concern across ...

In recent days there have been reports that Washington, and perhaps also Tel Aviv, is seeking an off-ramp from the current war with Iran. What options might such an exit involve? And how realistic do ...

Here is a conundrum. While stock exchanges across the world react nervously to the onslaught on Iran, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange is booming. Here is another: while millions of people in the region ...

Despite the massive bibliography on Cuba’s revolution, remarkably few books in English cover the island’s story from its earliest days. This alone justifies Richard Gott’s claim to be providing A New ...

A surprising transformation has swept the political culture of the rich world over the past decade and a half. In the fallout from the financial crisis, the rise of the Tea Party, the Indignados, the ...