Educational apartheid is still at the heart of Britain's social division and academic under-achievement. George Walden, who has been conducting a one man campaign at Westminster to open private...

Alberto Fujimori, Peru's president of Japanese origin, is set to become one of Latin America's longest surviving political leaders. Janet Bush surveys the strategy of a man who strives to combine...

Two prominent French writers who have been married for 30 years, Philippe Sollers and Julia Kristeva, discuss their attitude to infidelity

American conservatism is radically distinct from its British and European counterparts. Imbued with a religious and populist sensibility, its enemy is liberalism, not socialism. Irving Kristol, one...

Despite tensions over Drumcree, Anglo-Irish relations have been transformed over the past 25 years. Inside the EU, Ireland has become a more open, self-confident country, pursuing with Britain the...

What's the October summit for?

Do not let a ferret sniff your private parts, even if it is called Fatima, says Jeremy Clarke

Even pro-European commentators in Britain have been turning against monetary union and questioning the EU's democratic credentials. Charles Grant says that Emu would not have the dire economic...

Alfred Sherman attacks John Gummer's white paper on land use and his attempt to turn London into Barcelona

Eugenio Scalfari, the editor of La Repubblica, says that Italians have become obsessed with secession. But do they have a sense of identity in the first place?