We are on this chessboard Earth, we attempt our moves, but at times it seems as if the great hand of a disinterested giant ...

Of course, there will be stupidities enough, and cliques of every kind too, but so long as it is possible to keep them within ...

The traditional right-wing emphasis on law and order has an additional valence in today’s Chile, signifying not only the ...

How do you judge the present trend in Germany towards the possible eruption of a new nationalism, as evidenced by the NPD, and the electoral successes which that party has scored in several of the ...

There is a commonplace saying that history is written by the victors. At the time of writing, there is a ceasefire in effect in Gaza, although it is one-sided, because as usual in such cases, Israel ...

Iam the king and I will destroy you—all of the castas feed my appetite’, Javier Milei bellowed at his victory rally after Argentina’s legislative elections on 26 October 2025.footnote 1 His party’s ...

The neo-Schumpeterian approach of Philippe Aghion – co-author of The Power of Creative Destruction (2021), among many other books – has had a significant influence on European economic policy since ...

The gallery of grotesques assembled by Trump – only the toga was missing in his rendering of the Roman Emperor Nero – at Sharm-el-Sheikh, the Egyptian resort synonymous with luxury and despotism, ...

The slight and soft-eyed British actor Frank Dillane is in every scene of the London-set drama Urchin. That would put pressure on any performance, but it’s compounded by the approach taken by ...

A general strike erupted across Italy on Monday and some half a million people took to the streets in one of Europe’s largest mobilisations against the war on Gaza. Actions took place in at least 75 ...

Preparations for the founding conference of Britain’s new socialist party – provisionally named ‘Your Party’ – are underway. More than 800,000 people have registered as supporters. Local groups, proto ...

One of the features of our age is that ‘improvements’ are rarely good news. A promised improvement means that those with power are going to change something, and those with power would not be where ...