The Taliban recently ordered the stoning to death of an adulterous couple in Kunduz province. I read a newspaper report of this just after deciding to run with our cover story on how we must learn to...

Forget record achievement in A-Levels, the real problem with education resides in content

President Obama’s deadline for American combat operations to end in Iraq will expire at the end of this month, with the number of troops being reduced to 50,000 in preparation for an eventual...

Anatole Kaletsky’s intriguing cover story about the next phase of capitalism contends that the state will both advance (in finance and macro-economics) and retreat (in health, education and...

Who’d be Nicolas Sarkozy? Languishing in the polls, lambasted at home and increasingly mistrusted abroad by his one-time ally Angela Merkel, you’d think things could scarcely get worse. Step...

For most Britons, 7 July 2005 will be remembered as the day that al Qaeda attacked London. But five years on, no link has been established between the 7/7 bombers and al Qaeda. Whilst its possible...

The break-up of the state of Belgium seems ever more likely following the victory in June’s elections of the moderate separatist New Flemish Alliance (NFA). (See “Brussels diary,” p25.) The...

It looks as though the new government is belatedly prepared to grasp the nettle of Labour’s alleged acceptance of torture. The promised commission will investigate what exactly was tolerated under...

Against many predictions Paddy Ashdown, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, was not brought into Britain’s new coalition cabinet. Rumours abound that he could become an EU Balkan envoy, but the...

If anyone in Brussels ought to believe in austerity it is Olli Rehn, the economics and monetary affairs commissioner whose job it is to force the Greek government to take the axe to public spending....