The next morning, the city was silent. DC is openly hostile to Trump: more than 90 per cent of voters backed ...

On Monday, 28 October, the High Court heard an application by Jamal Hijazi’s lawyers to commit Robinson to prison for his breaches of the injunction. After weeks of insisting on his innocence and ...

Following last week’s floods in the city and province of Valencia in eastern Spain, a spectacular blame game began between the authorities in Madrid and the regional government of Valencia. It had to ...

Protecting, preserving and strengthening Jewish life ...

As sparks fly up from the welding rods, the beak of a bald eagle emblazoned on the welder’s mask curves menacingly towards the viewer. With comic-book subtlety the image screams: American industrial ...

This summer , on a visit home, I went to hear the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra at the National Theatre, in the Karradah district of Baghdad. The theatre has a roof shaped like a Bedouin tent and ...

The 29th UN Climate Change Conference begins in Baku on 11 November. For the third year in a row, as a recent editorial in the Financial Times pointed out, COP is being hosted ‘in an authoritarian ...

The great auk was a flightless, populous and reportedly delicious bird, once found widely across the rocky outcrops of the North Atlantic. By the 1860s it was extinct, its decline sharpened by ...

Our first stop in east Las Vegas was drenched in ersatz gore: fake zombie limbs, scattered femurs, a plastic skull.

Music critic Ian Penman is back with a pioneering book of essays alluding to a lost moment in musical history ‘when cultures collided and a cross-generational and “cross-colour” awareness was born’.

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The plan to ‘off-shore’ asylum seekers to Rwanda was the last straw. In May 2023, I resigned as a (part-time) immigration judge after twenty years in the job. It was less a matter of conscience, more ...