I have to confess that, like many other commentators, I thought that the coming of the Labour government would mean…

Scotland’s drug misuse deaths – the worst in Europe – have long been a stain on the Scottish government’s record.…

On Monday morning at 5 a.m. the superyacht Bayesian sank off the coast of Sicily, leaving one man dead and six…

Good heavens. As the 2024 US presidential campaigns pick up pace, some rather damning revelations have emerged about the impression…

Illegal immigrants continue to flow into England across the calm waters of the Channel. The latest data from the Home Office…

‘Kanko kankai’ (tourism pollution) is the latest buzz phrase here in Japan as the double-edged samurai sword of the visitor…

Rafah, Gaza The heat, the sand, the soldiers. I’m in Rafah, a war zone unlike any other. As a former…

In the sprawling and unlovely village of Billopilya, only five miles from Ukraine’s border with Russia, when death comes, it…

Chicago Monday night at the Democratic National Convention served as a protracted thank you and farewell to President Joe Biden…

The political pyrotechnics in Washington this summer have so blinding as to blot out everything else happening in the national…

From the moment Kamala Harris ascended to the status of 2024’s bringer of joy, the vice president has navigated a…

Russell Findlay has launched his bid to be the next Scottish Tory leader as the party descends into a civil…

Could Belarus’s Aleksandr Lukashenko be the key to ending the Ukraine conflict? In a surprising intervention over the weekend, the…

Boris Johnson is back. The ex-prime minister is preparing to grace the nation with his musings as the launch date…

How annoying must it be to win an Olympic title but be totally eclipsed by a competitor who failed to…

The latest information seeping out from the negotiations for an end to the war in Gaza suggest that agreement between…

One of the worst things about prison is the rules. Before I was sentenced I’d imagined jail as a rigid,…

I hated going to school so much as a kid that to this day, the sight of Back to School!…

Sir Keir Starmer hasn’t exactly had the easiest start to his premiership – what with the recent riots, the country’s…

The announcement from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is couched in bureaucratic language, but there is no disguising it. ‘Process…

Presque Isle, Maine  I was hoping to fly the first hydrogen balloon across the Atlantic and had been waiting for…

There’s more to Morjim than offshore gambling and trance parties “North Goa or South Goa?” Ahead of a last-minute January…

After a relatively quiet few months for Prince Andrew, there have been two recent developments that will no doubt make…

Is this the first sign of a bounce in the housing market? Property website Rightmove is reporting this morning that enquiries to…

The rich are happy to pay more, the broadest shoulders should bear the heaviest burden, and the climate emergency means…