Animal Farm, which was published 80 years ago this week, is the most insidious of George Orwell’s books. At first sight it’s a rollicking story, funny and unusually (for Orwell) full of affectionate ...

Almost everyone wants the fighting in Ukraine to stop. Yesterday’s meetings in the White House were about demonstrating to Donald Trump the obvious fact that Vladimir Putin, not Volodymyr Zelensky, is ...

Politics is a precarious business, and politicians are a precarious bunch. Every five years MPs face an employment review from an increasingly volatile public. But what happens to those who don’t make ...

How ‘distinguished’ UK lawyers made an unconvincing case against the recognition of Palestine But the UK government is not making a convincing case for recognition ...

“I think the common denominator is hope,” says Katie Hopkins’s husband and manager, Mark Cross, standing in front of the merch table at his wife’s comedy show. “The one common thread they all have is ...

When I heard that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin were to meet in Alaska, the first thing that sprang to mind was a humorous kolomyika—a sort of Ukrainian answer to the limerick—that I grew up with: ...

In July two people very close to my heart hit major life milestones; my best friend got married and my cousin had her first baby. I cried at the wedding, got drunk toasting the new arrival and ...

Herson, 32, left the world of corporate law after the pressure she felt during her training contract at one of the “Magic Circle”—a group of elite law firms—drove her to destructive coping mechanisms, ...

In a recent article for Prospect, Vincent Fean, former British consul general to Jerusalem, made a persuasive case for the unconditional recognition of Palestine, in line with the UK’s international ...

It seems pretty clear that Donald Trump would betray Ukraine if he could. He admires Vladimir Putin and is aiming for a grand deal with the Russian dictator, sharing future economic spoils between ...

The swelling of shame over Gaza Netanyahu’s security cabinet has voted to escalate a war that experts increasingly agree is genocidal. Where is the action to stop it?

Boualem Sansal is still in jail—and no one cares The 80-year-old writer has been locked up in an Algerian prison for nine months. Where are the defenders of free speech now?