July 26 marks 80 years since the 1945 Potsdam Declaration, in which the United States, Britain and China called on Japan to ...

While they are impossible to measure, emotions such as liking or hatred, admiration or contempt—the quotidian stuff of human relations—play a crucial part in making and unmaking alliances. Personal ...

Trump’s behaviour is complicating a range of international crises. The media was taken aback last week by a photograph of a ...

The meeting will end in the usual whimper with a fleeting sideways glance at productivity, where business groups have already ...

Old men cry war, young men die - Part 1When Eric Johnston, who befriended Stalin at the Kremlin in 1944, was asked if he thought ‘Uncle Joe’ — short f.

President Trump's use of AI-generated photos and videos on social media showing Trump as Superman, the pope and a "Star Wars" ...

Eighty years ago, on July 17, 1945, the last of the Second World War’s “Big Three” conferences was convened at Potsdam, near Berlin, Germany, in the Cecilienhof Palace. The key issues discussed and ...

As Tim Bouverie shows in his masterful new diplomatic history of the war, the prime minister was right, both in his assessment of Vichy and in his calculation that such ruthless action would convince ...

What a few months it’s been. War continues to rage in Europe and the Middle East, Labour are U-turning like they’ve suffered ...

The quarterly newsletter Abolish War, produced by the Movement of the same name (MAW), regularly comes through my letter box.

In his later years, Ioseb Jughashvili, or Joseph Stalin, the self-styled “Man of Steel,” was a physical wreck. Myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease, rendered lame his left hand. Rheumatoid ...