The victory of the Freedom party in Austria’s general election came as Israel intensified its air strikes across Lebanon. Lebanon’s…

The general elections in Austria have delivered a sensational result, with the hard right, pro-Putin Freedom party (FPO) coming out…

The fees English universities are allowed to charge home students in England are fixed by government fiat. At £9,250 per…

Robinson Crusoe on Mas a Tierra; Napoleon on Elba; Schofield on Nosy Ankarea. Island exile is an opportunity for man,…

Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party’s conference was mired in his freebie fiasco scandal after revelations about clothing donations and trips…

It was a curious farewell for Rishi Sunak this afternoon. The Tory leader has just finished his final speech to…

While one Tory leadership contest rumbles on, another has come to a close. Russell Findlay was made the new leader…

The first row of Tory conference has, unsurprisingly, involved Kemi Badenoch. The leadership contender was on Times Radio this morning…

Did Kemi Badenoch just say that maternity pay in the UK is ‘excessive’? That’s the claim kicking off the first…

Future pandemics as bad as Covid are ‘a certainty’, says Sir Chris Whitty. He is right in one sense. So…

At the Conservative party conference in Birmingham this morning, the Tory leadership candidates set out their stalls. Speaking to Laura…

Conservative party conference is underway. The conference centre in Birmingham is covered in photos of the four remaining leadership hopefuls…

Welcome to Tory conference 2024. For the next four days, the final quartet of contenders will battle it out, Hunger…

The opening of a regional parliament doesn’t usually make for edge-of-the-seat politics. But in the German state of Thuringia, the…

What will be Rishi Sunak’s political legacy, other than the terribly embarrassing thing that happened on July 4? Not free speech…

Russia’s spending on its war in Ukraine continues to grow. Somehow, despite tightening sanctions and increased global isolation, two-and-a-half-years in…

Keir Starmer is yet to hit the hundred day mark but he is already one MP down. This evening Rosie…

There is a satirical Israeli song from the Second Lebanon War, ‘Yalla Ya Nasrallah’, with the chorus: ‘Come on, oh…

The assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah transcends the immediate confrontation between Israel and its Islamist enemies. Nasrallah was both…

It is a little unsettling that the merchant ship MV Ruby is anchored off Margate, carrying 20,000 tonnes of Russian ammonium nitrate.…

For the past five years, I have been in something of a conflict: was Boris Johnson an unconventional but essentially…

Israel has said that it killed Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut yesterday. Information that Nasrallah was at Hezbollah’s main…

Amid a wave of BBC cutbacks, the Corporation has made much of its new ‘Verify’ service. Bosses have trumpeted its…

Olaf Scholz can’t catch a break. The German chancellor started the week on a high after his SPD party won…

Ten years ago this week, a sea of yellow umbrellas filled the streets of Hong Kong in what at the…