America’s official chief diplomat is the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, but so far his activities have been fairly limited. Instead, the role of principal US emissary is currently filled by the ...

The Queen Mary University of London branch of the University and College Union, of which I am co-chair, hosts a ...

In the more fortunate and vastly different condition of life under civil government, the ideal of independence had become a ...

Going into the second round of Ecuador’s elections on 13 April, the polls had the centre-left candidate, Luisa González, neck-and-neck with the far-right president, Daniel Noboa. The night before, ...

Classic’ may not be quite the right word for this scary, messy film – it’s about forms of rage that don’t ...

My former colleague Nicholas Mostyn writes gloomily that ‘we will likely lose speech, mobility and continence and be beset by ...

Francis assumed the papacy in 2013 in the teeth of a crisis. His predecessor, Benedict XVI, the first pope in centuries to resign, was strongly associated with theological and ritual conservatism. His ...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti could always cheer himself up by belittling William Morris. At the top of a letter to Jane Morris in 1868, he scribbled a crest for ‘The Bard and Petty Tradesman’ in which ...

If the British government is to be believed, only one civilian has been killed by its armed forces during its air ...