Ian Linden

We associate assassinations by one State on another’s territory — “targeted killings” is the softer sounding word — [...

Rachel Reeves’ decision to slash the Winter Fuel Payment is a bit of a mystery. Was the Chancellor pushed into it by ...

Over the past year and more I have written a number of pieces for The [...]

As a child in 1930s Budapest, a whole new world opened up for me when I learned to read. In the beginning I read only...

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 is no shortage of experts predicting what Putin may do if Zelensky fires his Western long-range ATACMS (army tactical missile systems) deep into Russia. On Syria's borders are both US military bases and Russian, including Putin's strategically important naval base at Tartus on the Mediterranean. But opinions how Russia might respond to a major Israeli attack on Iran, with US back-up, are notable by their absence. Instead, we hear repeated, imprecise warnings of a “wider war in the Middle East”. How wide, though?

The battered Conservatives are looking not only for a new leader, but for new areas on which to focus and new [...]

This story of love, loss, rejection and despair, based on Pushkin’s novel, is one of the most beautiful and lyrical [...

The roots of chess probably go back to India of over two millennia ago. The first literary [...]