If it weren’t for Lady Annabelle, I probably never would have watched Ladies of London, one of those American, Real Housewives-style, fly-on-the-fresco shows about rich people’s lives. Neilson was one ...

The Prime Minister would rather talk about Badenoch and Farage urging the UK into war than his former ambassador ...

Unmentioned – and apparently an afterthought for much of the Trump administration – was the narrow body of water that is now ...

Donald Trump said Israel was responsible for the South Pars attack and denied US involvement. He called for both sides to ...

He dazzled the tsar and tsarina with his virile charisma. But, as Antony Beevor shows, he also inspired their demise ...

Jane Cooper. Jane Cooper is a prize fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Latest articles. Book of the Day. We must love WH Auden or die.

Each spring, when this very specific time of year comes around – late February, early March, the last drag of grey weeks ...

More than half of voters say they were still undecided several weeks before polling day – a figure even higher among those ...

While Tehran has retaliated against its nearest neighbours in the region with missiles and drones, it has also weaponised its control of the Strait of Hormuz in order to inflict pain further afield.

John Bew’s excellent essay is best read as an intellectual warning rather than a programme for renewal of the state. His survey of past crises in Britain’s evolution is interesting and compelling, and ...

Vladimir Putin approaches power ...

Ian Buruma’s account of his father’s years in a German factory accounts department is moving but limited in scope ...