At the end of every summer I wondered if this would be the year I'd stop, recalls Benjamin Markovits

She has a reputation for being a different kind of Conservative—but just how far can Davidson go?

Is the president a dangerous ideologue drawing on America's racist past—or a man more tasteless than sinister? Talia Lavin and Andrew Stuttaford debate

The single currency's design isn't perfect. But what's really hampered its first 20 years, says Adam Tooze, are decisions freely taken by power-hungry men in Frankfurt

Life is humbling, as my fire-starting abilities never fail to prove

Plus pondering the Universe in York

The traditionally tolerant Nordic nation is taking a worrying turn

Over the last 200 years Britain and the US have gone to war—directly or indirectly—many times

A view from the ministry

New memoir Room to Dream, co-authored with Kristine McKenna, suggest just being David Lynch is an art in and of itself