1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (320+ words) Sunday 13 September 2026 Miliband’s critics have advanced many arguments, but two are particularly important. The first is that sanctions against certain Israeli citizens or settlements are antisemitic or would lead to increased antisemitism. To accept this claim would be to give…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (832+ words) Sunday 13 September 2026 Keir Starmer resisted calls from the Labour party and parts of the Foreign Office to ban trade with illegal West Bank settlements for years out of fear of angering Israel. The foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, brought 11 countries on…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (515+ words) Sunday 13 September 2026 The boss of Iceland Foods, Richard Walker, has defended a decision to launch the chain’s first supermarket in the Falklands, saying it is neither a political decision nor an “opportunistic kneejerk” reaction. The move, in partnership with a…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (602+ words) Tuesday 8 September 2026 Germany is reeling after Alternative für Deutschland won a landslide in a state election. So what? The result may put a far-right party in control of a German state for the first time since the end of the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (769+ words) Sunday 6 September 2026 The US-led attack in recent years on so-called “woke capitalism” has produced diverging responses from business. Many have stopped talking about, scaled back or given up on their social and environmental efforts, either not wanting to become a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1264+ words) Sunday 6 September 2026 Nepali rescue workers had been digging all night when they heard a faint voice coming from inside a mud-choked tunnel. “Don’t panic,” they said. The voice responded: “yes”. It had been nine days since a torrent crashed through…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (287+ words) Tuesday 1 September 2026 Mia Hansson, 52, works on her replica of the Bayeux tapestry from the corner of her sofa while watching crime dramas, she says, and embroiders it freehand. It has been 10 years in the making so far. “I measured it…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (390+ words) Saturday 29 August 2026 The Conservative MP James Cleverly yesterday resigned from the shadow cabinet to run for London mayor. He told Tory leader Kemi Badenoch he was stepping down as shadow housing secretary so that he could “concentrate fully” on winning…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (674+ words) Tuesday 25 August 2026 Andy Burnham has used his first foreign trip as prime minister to visit Kyiv, releasing classified technology to allow British-French cruise missiles to be manufactured in Ukraine. So what? The move is more symbolic than pragmatic, at least…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (161+ words) Monday 24 August 2026 To those of my age the name Imran Khan carries all those associations: the slightly manic curve of the run-up, the explosive leap and the double uncurling of the arms, the devastating high-arm slingshot, chest to the heavens;…...