The German ambassador to the UK, surprisingly named Miguel Berger ... that now competes for the label of the continent’s proverbial “sick man”. As the New Statesman columnist Hans Kundnani wrote last ...

As Christianity in Britain declines, two new books ask: what should we believe in now? By Lamorna Ash Where do we find meaning? The authors of two new books on faith are searching for (and ...

Anas Sarwar delivered a fine speech, packed full of new policies that sought to answer ... But Sarwar knows that Holyrood policy will not be enough. If the UK government cannot turn its fortunes ...

Under these new plans, the UK will need to find an additional £13.4bn annually for defence in less than two years. Interesting timing. On Thursday, Starmer travels to Washington for his first meeting ...

Given that the UK’s creative industries delivered almost £125bn to the economy in 2022 – more value than the life sciences, aerospace and automotive sectors combined – could the “creative gap” offer ...

His estimates were criticised by some who thought he had overstated the numbers but, after the fall of the Soviet Union, new information confirmed them ... that has not yet reached a conclusion.

A poem from Deborah Garrison about watching the actor’s transporting performance in “A Complete Unknown” and what may be lost ...

“We may be a small country, but we’re a great one, too,” he tells the press conference, before listing all the things that Britain can be proud of (Shakespeare, Churchill, David Beckham etc.) and ...

The Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, will announce a new package of sanctions against Russia today, but the most important measures are taken by groups of countries. The less headline-friendly but more ...

At the 9/11 memorial in New York, a line from Virgil’s Aeneid ... The Fabians, who founded this magazine, derive their name from the general Fabius Cunctator. There is the exceedingly obvious ...

The food retail giant will now surpass 900 warehouses worldwide with the opening of six new warehouses next month. Costco currently operates 897 warehouses — 617 of which are in the U.S. and ...

Miss Austen’s Jane is played by Patsy Ferran as witty, acerbic and, crucially, devoted to fiction. She is utterly determined to become a published author and her family support her in this pursuit.