The arrest of comedian Graham Linehan at Heathrow Airport is a dark harbinger of things to come in both Europe and the U.S.

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou is making a last-ditch effort to save his job, urging officials expected to topple him in a confidence vote later on Monday to back his plans to curb France’s ...

In a wide-ranging speech, Lord Mandelson, a key architect of New Labour, said the country cannot afford to show any ‘complacency’.

The PR adviser Tim Allan is Starmer’s latest recruit from the past. Allan worked for Blair even before he became leader, and ...

Donald Trump’s critics insist that he’s wrecking the transatlantic alliance. On the contrary: he’s strengthening it.

Lord Boswell of Aynho, who has died aged 82, was a Northamptonshire farmer who was Conservative MP for Daventry from 1987 to ...

The Shah of Iran once asked Elizabeth II whether she’d had more audiences with Conservative or Labour prime ministers during ...

The first duty of a constitutional monarchy is to be politically impartial -or, rather, to be seen to be so. The late Queen, ...

This year's European Forum Alpbach (EFA) ended with a new record number of participants. Under the motto “Recharge Europe,” around 4,700 participants ...

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European nations have fallen far behind in economic dynamism and military clout. Will the continent that once ruled the world become a bystander to history?