So this is what they meant by taking back control. Theresa May’s government has drawn up plans to allocate space on European ferries arriving at...
The task of Whitehall’s National Security Council is to map the threats facing Britain. It has plenty of material to work with: Islamist...
The legacy of the global financial crisis might have been a re-imagination of the market economy. Anything goes could have made way for something a...
Donald Trump, we know, has forged a special bond with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. We should forget Russia’s effort to subvert American democracy...
The irony is delicious. For Brexiters, leaving the EU next spring would restore parliament’s control over Britain’s destiny. Inconveniently,...
Italy is ruled by Eurosceptic populists; Poland and Hungary by authoritarian nationalists. Britain limps towards an unhappy Brexit; a new governing...
Britain’s National Health Service has a pressing need for more doctors. Hospitals have found willing and qualified recruits overseas. Theresa...
Enough. America’s allies have gritted their teeth, bitten their lips and fixed their smiles. They have fawned and flattered. To no avail. Donald...
Sad to say, Donald Trump cannot be blamed for everything. Watching the US president lavish praise on autocrats, throw up trade barriers and disdain...
Among this year's under-reported events was the opening of a new rail freight route. A locomotive, pulling wagons loaded with Chinese...
In the beginning - and by that I mean, say, 20 years ago - all was simple. The internet belonged to everyone and no one. It was a space free of...
Sometimes a landscape's contours dissolve into the detail. This is happening now amid the fracturing of the west's liberal order. Brexit, Donald...
Xi Jinping is heading to the World Economic Forum in Davos. Perhaps his trip tells us only than that the Chinese president has succumbed to the...
Angela Merkel is Europe's last leader standing. The German chancellor will soon announce she will be seeking a fourth term in next year's election....
There was nothing surprising in the warning from the International Monetary Fund that the economic consequences for Britain of leaving the EU would...
Barack Obama is due in London next week. Encouraged by his host David Cameron, the US president is likely to intimate that he thinks Britain would...
Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, is being forced to consider a fire sale of state assets even as he steps up the bombing of opposition forces...
