A memoir of a family in flight from the Nazis

We are at risk of slithering into a terrifying abyss where to qualify for full citizenship we will first need to prove our ethnic and racial purity.

The nub of the issue: Is an inference of Israel’s genocidal intent in Gaza and the West Bank the only one reasonable on all the evidence taken together?

Israel has made its intentions abundantly clear: to destroy, once and for all, any remote possibility that the Palestinians will ever be able to establish a viable nation of their own.

Amid Oman’s negotiations with Iran, how is mediation changing? Then: Can a national crisis have a silver lining for soft...

Complaining about anodyne government booklets setting out basic behavioural expectations strikes me as plumbing new depths of absurdity in the search for an easy headline.

To me, Rod Liddle was someone who never outgrew his days as a child who delighted in telling fart jokes.

'It should always be borne in mind that an essential characteristic of bounces is that they involve both upwards and downwards movement.'

'As sure as eggs is eggs, there will be no shortage of cock-ups, crises and Cabinet rebellions. So let’s take a deep breath and wait a few days.'

To see him forced off the political stage amid gales of mocking laughter would be a true delight — and, in an odd way, a real triumph for democracy.

Will the 250th anniversary of US independence be seen as the moment when Europe finally recognised what had been staring it in the face since Trump first burst upon the international stage?

'If yet another mainstream politician fails, there are some ugly alternatives waiting in the wings. If you’re not sure what I mean, I suggest you read a history of the Weimar Republic.'

Replacing Radio 4’s flagship news show with Newshour risks leaving British listeners without a programme made for them

If the BBC is to earn its place in a rapidly changing media environment, it must be able to offer something that no other provider does

Andrew Mueller and expert guests analyse the news

'When I look at the images from Belfast, and read the accounts of immigrant families’ homes there being torched by masked thugs, I hear ringing in my ears the words ‘pogrom’ and ‘Kristallnacht’.

As the far right fulminates about who ‘belongs’ in Britain, let’s remember Fritz Lustig, who arrived here in 1939, just months before war broke out. Initially jailed as an ‘enemy alien’, he played a v...

'In his ripe old age, my father came to enjoy being lionised almost as a war hero, and his last television interview was broadcast the day after he died.'

'Standing on the site of my grandmother's murder, I would very much have liked to be able to tell her that she was not forgotten.'

'I have long believed that, at least in an ideal world, to truly know ourselves, it helps to know from whom we are descended.'

If Starmer thinks that resuscitating Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman will somehow revive his fortunes, he is just confirming what many of his own MPs already suspect. He really is rubbish at politics.

‘Anti-semitism is an old, old hatred ...Yet far too many people in this country diminish it. They either don’t see it or they don't want to see it.'