Nine years ago, in the first years of Donald Trump's first presidency, I wrote about Harold Pinter's ranting poem ...

Tourists might stumble into a Scruton café in quite different parts of Budapest: one is on the second floor of ...

In a strong field of contenders, the most morally troubling computer game ever made is probably RapeLay, released ...

The alliance is a very old political technology. The late Bronze Age, with its dense networks of trade and ...

The Way of St Augustine runs from Ramsgate to Canterbury, a walk of just under twenty miles across open country.

It should be clear that there is absolutely nothing democratic about the negotiations between Trump’s agents and the Cuban government. If an agreement is reached, it will be a pure distillation of ...

The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, met last month with Raúl Castro’s grandson at a Caribbean Community ...

James is joined by historian Greg Grandin to discuss what the seizure of the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, reveals about Trump’s intentions in the region and his wider foreign policy, and why, ...

Nicola Barker’s explorations have taken her to 19th-century India and a post-metaphysical future. Yet British banality has retained its allure, and its uses. Her work is full of people called things ...

It’s no surprise that Operation Roaring Lion (Israel’s name for its campaign) and Operation Epic Fury (as the US calls its own) bear the hallmarks of Israel’s offensives on the Gaza Strip. War with ...