On 2 December 1943, 105 German bombers made a surprise air raid on Bari in southern Italy, where they sank 27 Allied cargo and transport ships. One...
Economic sanctions are like the siege of a medieval city. Siege engines batter at the walls and hurl missiles over them, but it is all a slow...
In a new study, David Hope of the London School of Economics and Julian Limberg of King’s College London lay waste to the theory. They reviewed...
Watching the antics of Trump and the blunders of Boris Johnson in failing to cope with the virus, I have the same feeling I had repeatedly over the...
Allegations against Assange put forward by the lawyers for the US government are flimsy or demonstrably false, yet he is still in real danger of...
Desperate refugees crammed into cockle-shell boats landing on the shingle beaches of the south Kent coast are easily portrayed as invaders....
The government’s controversial Prevent programme aims to stop individuals becoming terrorists, but it would be much more effective if it taught...
Britain is failing to cope with the Covid-19 epidemic as well as other countries in Europe and East Asia have. Out of 62,000 excess deaths in the...
I was in Kabul in 2010 when Julian Assange and WikiLeaks first released a vast archive of classified US government documents, revealing what...
If I was sitting in a restaurant and said in a loud voice that I had probably contracted coronavirus, many other customers might get up and leave....
Nationalism in different shapes and forms is powerfully transforming the politics of the British Isles, a development that gathered pace over the...
Britain is becoming more and more like Northern Ireland. This should be a comfort to Arlene Foster and the DUP as they rue their betrayal by Boris...
The death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of Isis and the self-declared caliph of Islamic State, will be a serious, though not terminal, blow to...
Bluff was a central feature of British power even when the British empire covered a large part of the globe. A story illustrating this tells of a...
Pictures of Daniel Ezzedine show him to be a fresh-faced 17-year-old with a warm cheerful smile. His parents are Lebanese but he was brought up in...
Brexiteers in Britain are denouncing the EU as an all-powerful behemoth from whose clutches Britain must escape, just as the organisation is...
Benjamin Netanyahu is an early version of the nationalist populist leaders that have come to power in country after country in recent decades. He...
Future historians will look back at Britain in the age of Brexit and seek to explain why its people reduced their power and influence in the world...
