By naming McSweeney chief of staff, Starmer has abolished No 10’s dual power structure and given his administration a more explicitly political stamp. One criticism long made of Gray was that, as a ...

Her position had become "unsustainable", Labour staff said.

Why the State of Israel is central to Jewish identity. By Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis It is said that Chaim Weizmann, who would later become the first president of the State of Israel, was once asked ...

Has the Austrian election heralded “a new era” in Europe? The hard-right's victory is causing unease in Brussels. By Luke McGee The victory of Austria’s hard-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) in the country’s ...

This is Lebanon’s modern history: bloody and conflicted. Present events are unfortunately of a piece. Lebanon’s ...

There’s a particular type of column, upsettingly common in British newspapers over the past few years, that can be summarised ...

Governmental secondary schools in Egypt do not allow Palestinian students to enrol in classes, so recent exiled ...

Scotland is not immune to the Burnham effect. In the SNP’s recent Programme for Government, Holyrood’s equivalent of the King ...

William Dalrymple’s The Golden Road places India, not China or Europe, as the global wellspring of learning and power.

The situation in the Middle East is only getting more dangerous.

The Duke of Buckingham served King James I better as a lover than a statesman – and his blunders laid the ground for civil ...

Three first-time novelists are among the six writers nominated for the £10,000 award for fiction that “breaks the mould“.