Sitting next to the Thames on a cool, late-summer afternoon, Elif Shafak remembers the last time she stepped foot in Istanbul ...

The film includes no narration, just interviews conducted in darkness on rooftops in central Tel Aviv with the interviewees’ ...

On Monday morning at Labour’s annual party conference, Andy Burnham was 70 days into those first “100 days”, by which new leaders since Franklin D. Roosevelt have been judged. Things remain fluid, but ...

Banning the media from the White House appears to have backfired, but the bigger fight for press freedom—when so much of our ...

The government’s upcoming decisions on Jackdaw, Rosebank and electric vehicles could affect its chances in key constituencies ...

Nostalgia was much in evidence in China as citizens remembered Zhu Rongji, the former Chinese premier who died aged 97 in August after a life of exemplary public service. As citizens recalled the ...

Preparing a new edition of a book is a delight. The simple fact that it’s required is a pat on the back from the world. It is a chance to re-immerse myself in an old enthusiasm. It is also a chance to ...

Recent events in England now reveal the practical difference between terrorists and protesters. It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters ...

On New Year’s Day 1839, when she was 19 and had been on the throne for less than two years, Queen Victoria tried to discuss Charles Dickens’s new novel, Oliver Twist, which was still being serialised, ...

In his first remarks as the UK’s new leader, Merseyside-born Andy Burnham made a bold promise to build a new political model. He did not shy away from critiques of the neoliberalism that has gripped ...