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Jennifer, the baby daughter my wife Sarah brought into the world a few days after Christmas 2001, died after only 11 days. By day four, when the...
The nightmare continues. One year on from the horror of the 7 October massacre and the inhumane seizure of hostages, more than 40,000 lives have been...
In recent days, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, has capitulated to the far-right anti-immigration agenda of Marine Le Pen. In July, in an...
Just a little over a year since declaring that Covid-19 was no longer a public health emergency of international concern and that the 2022-23 mpox...
The world is on fire. At no time since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 has the world looked so dangerous, nor has an end to its 56 conflicts – the...
Blazoned across the top of every edition of the Washington Post is the statement “Democracy dies in darkness”. But what if the publisher himself...
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For as long as I can recall, our country has been defined by what we might call three basic truths that we hold to be British: first, our devotion to...
By the time of the European parliament elections in June, this year’s rightward ebb in European politics will have turned into a tidal wave....
An election year is the time to confront the paralysing gloom and declinist thinking besetting our country and, by rediscovering our moral compass,...
Even if the government issued newspaper editors with D-notices banning any public mention of the word “poverty”, it could hardly do more to create...
With all hope currently buried beneath the rubble of Gaza and Israel’s abandoned kibbutzim, it is hard not to despair about the prospects of an...
A story is told about a British ambassador and his fellow diplomats at the UN who were asked of their hopes for the festive season. “A box of the...
This year has been dominated by the Russia-Ukraine war, recession, the China-US standoff, and the Hamas terrorist attack and Gaza war. Yet as...