The Prime Minister and his harem of advisors, bureaucrats, and industry hangers-on have returned after a six-day tour in China. At the moment it’s a toss-up between being worried taxpayer dollars ...

On the wall of a dive bar in Washington, DC, hung a poster for Michelangelo Antonioni’s The Passenger. The bar had… ...

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Yesterday the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited London for the first time since he took office in May. He and the ...

Scotland went to the polls to decide its future in the United Kingdom. While the outcome was decisive – 55 per cent of voters ...

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It’s still lunchtime in Taipei but the streets are strangely quiet. A few people are running with their bags, despite the ...

A Western financial analyst based in Shanghai once described China’s economic statistics to me as ‘one of greatest works of ...

When I was recently in hospital for almost six months, one of my closest and most impish friends – who knows me very well and ...

When the lead singer of Bob Vylan’s name was revealed, it caused a fair amount of amusement. This anti-establishment musician ...

Moscow’s response to the latest ultimatum issued by Donald Trump last week has been to deploy that most Russian of diplomatic ...

When I walked past a group of shouting protestors holding placards announcing, ‘Christians for Palestine,’ I couldn’t resist: ...