For some years now, education reformers in Scotland have looked towards the English state school system with something like ...

All it went to show is how so many politicians have failed to engage in the detail of the debate on how best to care for ...

Los Angeles was primed to burn – by human error and human greed.

The greatness of F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, published 100 years ago, lies in its details. But they are often overlooked, ...

The winner of the 2017 PEN Pinter Prize on how poets have responded to the horrors of civil war  – and why the peace process is far from over.

In January 2009, as Gordon Brown’s government argued over whether to build a third runway at Heathrow, the senior civil ...

The political calculations that allowed the Gaza ceasefire could yet be its undoing.

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In an age of rampant inequality and oligarchic government, two leading thinkers ask: can democratic socialism survive?

“It hollows out in the community. It means good local businesses shut. It’s quiet at night, and there are safety aspects to ...

Badenoch highlighted the Conservative record on education and called Labour's legislation "an act of vandalism".

The pictures make me smile. The people in them seem real and alive.