Immigration has always been an excuse or accelerant for far-right terrorism. In the 1940s, the right-wing Jewish terrorist group the Irgun engaged in terrorist acts not out of xenophobia, but to ...

Dominic Sandbrook is the author of “Never Had it So Good” (Abacus) and is finishing a book on the 1970s ...

In June 2024, I visited Israel for the first time since the 7th October Hamas attack and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) assault on Gaza that followed. Since then—at the earliest—I have been appalled, ...

Omer Bartov is the dean’s professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University ...

A ludicrous image from Trump’s second state visit to the United Kingdom disturbed me. I watched him being given a ride around the empty lanes of the Windsor Estate in a golden ceremonial coach. It ...

With wide shoulders and grey hair, Wael al-Dahdouh suits the nickname Al-Jabal, the mountain of Gaza. Throughout years of war reporting, Al Jazeera’s bureau chief in the Strip has been pictured in a ...

Historians will debate for ever and a day why the second Donald Trump government was so much more extreme than his first. So extreme that Trump’s second term, if unchecked, could launch a revolution ...

I am chopping carrots in a small warehouse in Dunkirk when Mary (not her real name), the middle-aged woman peeling potatoes next to me, asks me what my greatest passion is in life. Perhaps it’s her ...

He’s officially next in line to the Murdoch empire, but what is Lachlan Murdoch’s story? Alan and Lionel are joined by Paddy Manning, investigative reporter and author of The Successor: The ...

In 1983, architect Peter Calthorpe gave up on San Francisco, where he had tried and failed to organise neighbourhood communities, and moved to a houseboat in Sausalito, a town on the San Francisco Bay ...

At the start of the summer, various articles appeared in the press bemoaning the ethnic composition of the population living in public housing in the UK, or even of London itself. I pushed back in a ...

The aftermath of a brutal attack such as happened in Manchester on Thursday calls for a measured, human and calm response. Don't jump to hasty conclusions. Avoid knee-jerk reactions. Comfort the ...