The threat of all-out war in the Middle East will further destabilise the global economy.

n the early hours of Friday morning, Israel launched a full-scale campaign against Iran, as waves of air strikes targeted the Islamic regime’s nuclear programme and military bases. The attack – known ...

The music of the Beach Boys shows us a different, gentler side to America.

In this novel by the Chinese author Fang Fang, first published in the writer’s home country in 2001 and now in English, we follow Yingzhi, a teenager from a rural village. When she unexpectedly gets ...

The grenade is Liz Truss. Labour loves to talk about her. Reeves reminded the House yesterday of two awkward facts: what the ...

Reeves’ advance U-turn on winter fuel already marked a return to more familiar territory. Labour MPs struggled to defend a policy that removed the benefit from almost all pensioners. Now, with it ...

It’s a dull grey day in the pebbledashed sprawl of north-west London when I first see Keir Starmer. We’re at RAF Northolt ...

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There is more dissent in the country – where assisted dying is legal – than MPs in the UK have been led to believe.

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life tries to revive the genre but ends up proving it passé. Agathe (tall, gawky, glorious Camille Rutherford), single, in her thirties, works in the Shakespeare & Co bookshop ...

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