It’s one of the staples of television news to show punch-ups in parliamentary settings. These days, such scenes are as common as natural disasters…

One of the very first actions taken by the incoming Labour government was the scrapping of the previous administration’s Rwanda policy. The…

When Sotheby’s, the great auction house, hosted its first major retrospective of Saudi art last month in London, the Saudi ambassador was present and…

On 24 August, a private jet landed at a French airport. On board was a man in his later thirties known to possess a fortune which, according to…

When the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, interviewed the world’s most famous man, former president Donald Trump, on X (formerly Twitter), the social…

At Grand Rapids in Michigan, in his first rally since an attempt on his life, Donald Trump paused from the usual maundering speech to tell the vast…

She is the recently re-elected president of the European Commission and a former German defence minister, a name known to many, but who is Ursula von…

There’s a heady atmosphere in certain quarters of Britain’s General Election. Not among the Conservatives, obviously. Their best ploy now is to…

Late last month, a new kind of phone caused a sensation at a design show in Milan. Some people were calling this radical innovation the ‘dumb phone.’…

The world may be changing rapidly, mostly for the worse, yet in London’s Somerset House, built with all the stolid permanence of the Neoclassical…