For five years, one woman from Helmand has been clinging on to the future that was taken from her by the Taliban ...

T he prime minister’s issue, so far in his short time in office, has been the cost of living. He has, among other measures, ...

At times, I have wished I knew less about the suffering to wildlife. But despair is something I can’t afford—not least ...

In the UK, this perennial debate has reached a moment of real importance. A few years ago, there was a political consensus around our collective climate goals. In 2008, when Gordon Brown was prime ...

Once-solid bipartisan US support for the Jewish state is no more. The consequences for Israel will be enormous ...

It might feel like he has been in power forever, but I promise you, it really has only been a few weeks ...

Katia Glod is deputy head of foreign policy at the New Eurasian Strategies Centre ...

The United Kingdom faces two defence challenges. The first is financial. After decades of underinvestment, rebuilding military capability is essential. But the second challenge is intellectual.

“I am not delusional,” laughs the poet Claudia Rankine, seated in the light-filled lounge of the Marseille apartment that is home for the summer. “This book won’t be for everybody. It is asking a lot ...

There are rights which only a few people have, rights which a section of the public have, and rights which are held by all members of the public. And one of the rights held by all members of the ...

The narrator of Ted Chiang’s short story “The Great Silence” is a parrot at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The bird watches as humans desperately seek life in other solar systems by using a ...

I’ve always been bold—unafraid to approach someone and ask a question, and, more importantly, unafraid of the response I might receive. Sex work inevitably involves a lot of rejection, especially when ...