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In a recent interview, Emmanuel Macron said the French historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Nazis in 1944, gave in his book Strange Defeat the best explanation of the dangers [...]

In a multipolar age, states will have to look after their own security In different but complementary and insightful ways, Robert D Kaplan, John Gray and Helen Thompson have made [...]

With the ousting of Joe Biden as the Democrat nominee for the presidency, the corrosion of democratic norms that began with Donald Trump's baseless claims about the 2020 election and [...]

In a new series, named 'Face to Face' in homage to the former New Statesman editor John Freeman's celebrated television interviews of the 1960s, today's foremost thinkers, writers and politicians [...]

The abrupt disappearance of a familiar world leaves a sense of unreality in those who witness it. When an unhinged rabble stormed the Capitol building in Washington, DC in January, [...]

If you thought the recent Gary Lineker fracas was the climax of the government's culture wars campaign, think again. That was just a softening-up exercise: more and more ground troops [...]

During the nearly half a decade she has been in office, Iceland's prime minister Katri'n Jakobsdottir has built a reputation for quietly obliterating expectations. She is consistently voted the most [...]

The postwar Western left has always been at its strongest when it has sought agglomeration when it has united a broad coalition of support spanning the blue collar working class, [...]

International liberal democracy is heading into what could be a grim autumn. On 11 September Swedes face an election that may make the far-right Sweden Democrats part of a governing [...]

My first book will be published on 3 June. It's titled The Case Against the Sexual Revolution and it pretty much does what it says on the tin. My argument [...]

I couldn't believe it. I was trying to discuss traditional marriage--and the state was trying to stop me. Incredible, in a 21st-century European country, but true. I was invited to [...]

Progressives once believed that the retreat of liberal democracy would be akin to water flowing uphill. History, they assumed, was irrevocably on their side. But from the US to Russia, [...]

The nine novels of Christopher Brookmyre are worth reading even if slick comedy thrillers aren't to your taste. Eight were published after new Labour came to power, but for all [...]

On Saturday morning, on a palm-tree lined promenade in the small city of Badalona in eastern Catalonia, a 38-year-old woman named Mar Garcia Puig fanned herself with her speaking notes [...]

Most of us who grew up in the Fifties and Sixties imagined that 'nostalgia' was a chronic malaise of the right. We witnessed the end of empire and observed colonials [...]

On 13 September 2015, for the first time in British history, a Marxist assumed the office of shadow chancellor. Unlike Jeremy Corbyn, who recently confessed that he had not 'read [...]

Basil D'Oliveira, who has died at 80, was perhaps the greatest of all cricketing heroes because he achieved so much against such enormous odds. But there was another hero, less [...]