I was one of the hundreds of thousands of British students who received their A-level grades last Thursday. Today is GCSE results day. These were…
I was one of the hundreds of thousands of British students who received their A-level grades last Thursday. Today is GCSE results day. These were…
The gigantic explosion which, on Tuesday 4 August, blew up the installations of the port of Beirut and heavily damaged the old Christian quarters, is…
‘Children are not the face of this pandemic. But they risk being among its biggest victims. While they have thankfully been largely spared from the…
On 30 July, the Council of the European Union (EU) adopted sanctions – a travel ban and assets freeze – against individuals and state bodies…
It is a strange divide in society. Some people furrowed their brows when I told them I was publishing a book called Tickbox, and really…
What exactly was it that melted Germany’s ‘Iron Chancellor’ into ferrous gloop this week? Political scientists probing the wet, shapeless mass puddling around their feet…
A vision for a de-centralised, de-bureaucratised, effective National Health Service
Let’s start with Stalingrad. If you read Anthony Beevor’s book about the turning point of World War II, the impression is one of senseless waste….
My five-year-old son asked me if coronavirus has gone away, I told him no, it’s on holiday in America. The daily number of recorded new…
The global fallout from the horrendous murder of George Floyd in May this year, evolved in a peculiarly British direction once it hit these shores…
In the upper Himalayan valley of Ladakh, twenty Indian soldiers were killed on 15 June 2020 in a border incident with the Chinese army. This…
The UK, with between 40,000 and 65,000 deaths depending on which measure you use, has suffered disproportionately during coronavirus. It has the third-highest death toll…