Move over Grover Cleveland. Before Donald Trump’s victory on 5 November, Cleveland had a monopoly on one aspect of American electoral history: he was…

Georgi Markov felt a sharp pain in his thigh. The Bulgarian writer, broadcaster, and dissident was waiting for a London bus in September 1978 when a…

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Reports abound in both the traditional media and its electronic equivalents that the British Conservative Party, aged 190, has passed away or is on…

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On the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers had died in the…

War and famine frequently go together. This can be a consequence of violence, such as wars fought across fields of crops. But depriving people of…

Wars are messy. Deriving clear lessons from them as a result is a challenging proposition.Nonetheless, since World War II, there are frequent…

The pronouncements of junior ministers in any government normally go unnoticed in the wider world. This truism was recently violated when Amihai…