Politics and Government

The rapid expansion of the early Islamic world is conventionally ascribed to a combination of perceptive military leadership and religious fervour....

This collection of essays by Christopher J. Berry spans several decades and multiple shifts across Scottish Enlightenment, Hume and Smith studies. ...

A riveting blend of memoir and manifesto ... I found myself dog-earing every page Elizabeth Day 'Profoundly articulate. Entirely wise. Beautifully ...

The Sunday Times Bestseller A new assessment of the Wests colonial record In the wake of the dissolutio...

'A witty, lucid investigation into one of the great mysteries of our time' JONATHAN COEShould be read and enjoyed by readers on the left, right and...

Westminster and Whitehall are secret worlds, hidden to most. But working as a lobby journalist, former Labour Party staffer Andy McSmith has had ex...

Why we need a materialist spirituality for the secular left, and how to build one. The left commonly rejects religion and spirituality as counter-...

Eight years after annexing Crimea, Russia embarked on a full-scale invasion of neighbouring Ukraine in February 2022. For Vladimir Putin, this was ...

Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in t...