Browsing: Editorial

When the government’s 10-year health plan is published in July, prevention is expected to get a promotion. This won’t be the first time that ministers will…

The Conservative party may be sliding into the abyss, as Sir Keir Starmer suggests, but Labour would be foolish to imagine that it is insulated from…

If one thing is more challenging to the rule of law than a genuine emergency, it is the invention of a phoney one. Since returning to…

The startled joy that greeted Bashar al-Assad’s fall less than six months ago was always shadowed by the fear of what might follow. Hundreds of thousands…

Last July, concluding his election victory speech after winning in Clacton, Nigel Farage announced that after inflicting grievous damage on the Conservative party that night, Reform…

Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful” budget squeaked through the US House of Representatives last Thursday – a shiny populist package hiding a brutal class agenda. No…

The independent sentencing review for England and Wales under David Gauke is a landmark response to both an immediate crisis in the prisons and to an…

In his classic study of the 17th-century Dutch golden age, The Embarrassment of Riches, the art historian Simon Schama showed how the biblical story of Noah’s ark…

Donald Trump’s pledge to end the war in Ukraine on the first day of his second term as US president was a sign of his unsuitability…

The UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher fears that thousands of babies are at imminent risk of death in Gaza unless aid reaches them. Benjamin Netanyahu fears…