By inclination, tradition and design, the Labour Party is much less prone to toppling leaders than their Conservative counterparts. There is no equivalent to the 1922, Sir Graham Brady’s grin and the…

Former minister Catherine West has this afternoon announced that she is prepared to challenge Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership.

According to multiple reports, Putin has grown increasingly paranoid in recent months over the possibility of an assassination attempt.

People want a politics grounded in home, not a Prime Minister in it for a leaders’ family photo and a chilled glass of Chasselas.

They had opposed the creation of a Scottish parliament, predicting that it would become a bulwark of nationalism and undermine the Union.

The instincts of Farage, Richard Tice, Danny Kruger and others are far less aligned with the people who are voting for their party.

Some of the greatest combinations of house and landscape on the planet. Now just ace settings for children’s games.

That is still less than 1.5 per cent of the 67 trillion rouble household deposit base across Russia's banks, but the pace is rising.

Few questions in economic history generate more heat than asking if European rule in Asia and Africa made colonised peoples poorer

Bar trends have finally shifted back to the classic martini coinciding with trends that focus on affluence and opulence.

The modern Grand National is still a race worth defending against the (sadly) increasing numbers who would like to ban it.

Let me introduce you to Ifhat Shaheen who is likely to become a Green party councillor in Hackney next month.

These were never ‘peace talks’. For both the US and Iran, they were just another moment, another strategy, another pressure point.

I was sent documents suggesting that a single visit to a local public toilet in West Oxfordshire cost the taxpayer £8.69.

Advertising's decline was slow, then sudden and mostly self-inflicted. From the 2000s, the business has been stifled by dullards.

The US and Iran have failed to reach an agreement after peace talks. But we didn’t have to wait for them to finish to guess the outcome.

The gap between the two sides on Iran’s nuclear programme and the Strait of Hormuz proved too big in the end.

After three years of theatrical um-ing and ah-ing, the Waleses have seemingly acceded to the obvious: Prince George is going to Eton.

Since 2023, I’ve spent months alongside Khu Reedu, living among a platoon of his men and women who had been with him since the beginning.

It must be unpleasant to be Prince Harry at the moment. Not only is he waiting on the judgement of Mr Justice Nicklin for his class action lawsuit for privacy infringement against Associated…

The policy that seems closest to the government’s heart – the surrender of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius – is in real trouble. The treaty with Mauritius, signed in May last year, cannot be ratified…

There are times when it seems that violence against women and girls – forever these days being hand-wrung over by useless politicians as their alleged absolute priority – is like a game…

A row has erupted in Spain over what to do with Pablo Picasso’s 1937 Cubist masterpiece ‘Guernica’. Since 1992, this gigantic black-and-white painting – which depicts the bombing of the Basque town…

It seems that the Chagos deal is the grift which keeps on giving. The government last night confirmed that it had been forced to pause the legislation granting the islands’ handover, following a…

When the Iran war kicked off in late February, if you’d been asked to place a bet on which country would have the Herculean task of mediating between the combatants, Pakistan would have been a long…

When a government’s answer to protesting truckers is to send in the army, something has gone badly wrong. At present, truckers and farmers in Ireland are blocking roads around the country as part of…

The eyes of the world are on Pakistan’s capital Islamabad as it plays host to this weekend’s make or break negotiations between the United States and Iran. The Pakistanis, whose mediation efforts…