Alain Catzeflis

The two great conflicts raging on Europe’s borders — Gaza and Ukraine – appear frozen, mired in grievance and hate, n...

To celebrate the publication of AN Wilson’s latest biography — Goethe: His [...]

Wales. The Land of Song. Yet even here they are having to defend themselves from an Arts Council England (ACE) [...]

Back in 1986 I had my first publication with a major publisher, Chatto and Windus. (The book was

When the verbs disappear from a political speech, it’s crowd-rousing time. At the Labour Party Conference in [...]

The opening ceremony of the Budapest Chess Olympiad earlier this month was dominated by a glorious combination of the...

There are things we can say with some certainty about the wildfire sweeping across the Levant. There are others we can be less sure about. But we can make some educated guesses. More than ever the picture is complex. In the heat of battle reaching for simple explanations is unwise.

Next week, Conservative MPs will vote to narrow down the leadership contest to the final two candidates. These two [...]

Hope rarely collapses overnight. Most often it leaks away, bit by painful bit, like a slow haemorrhage. We are fast approaching that point in the Middle East.

Balazs Orban, an adviser to (but no relation of) the Prime Minister of Hungary, Victor Orban, claimed in a recent interview that it was irresponsible of the Ukrainians to resist the Russian onslaught in 2022, because it would lead to many casualties. Eventually, they were likely to lose against a much stronger adversary. So, what was the point? He went on to argue that if, at some time in the future, Hungary were to find itself in a similar situation, it would surrender, thereby avoiding casualties.