Two new exhibitions in London offer a kind of answer

Police violence and a disproportionate number of racially-motivated incidents have sparked a summer of riots. The rhetoric of politicians, especially toward Muslims and Arabs, led up to the clashes.

The united response to Russia might have been the exception rather than the rule. It has long proved difficult for the EU to agree on foreign policy positions.

With news just in that the Bank of England has decided to raise the base interest rate by a whopping half a percentage point, there is a definite air of economic crisis hanging over the UK today.

Macron has condemned the killing of a 17-year-old of Algerian descent and the UN has called on Paris "to address the problems of racism within the ranks of its security forces."

The medieval Church produced a superstar. It is no surprise, therefore, there were already some 20,000 images of Saint Francis in existence within 100 years of his death

The Windrush anniversary comes at a time when the British government appears increasingly opposed to immigration in general.

Humanity sank and drowned once again on 14 June, when a vessel with reportedly more than 700 people on board, trying to reach Europe, sank in the east Mediterranean, off the southern coast of Greece

Massive Nato air force exercises are following Berlin's re-drawn view of the world as Olaf Scholz appears to be accepting a bigger role for his country