Irish willingness to join NATO could ease unification
In 1949, when America’s ambassador handed Ireland’s foreign minister an invitation to join NATO, the answer was a polite no. ...
How Donald Trump is shaping other countries’ politics
THE PRESIDENT’S ability to bend reality is a political superpower. Before last year’s election, our YouGov polling showed tha...
How (and why) J.D. Vance does it
The safe choice for vice-president was not J.D. Vance. He arrived on Donald Trump’s presidential ticket with little political...
Marine Le Pen’s ban polarises France
For the better part of a decade Marine Le Pen has worked methodically to transform an extremist, xenophobic fringe movement i...
Lift sanctions to give Syria a chance of rebuilding
Syrians could be forgiven for disillusionment. Four months after the fall of Bashar al-Assad in December, following five deca...
Peruvians long for a Bukele-like strongman to beat crime
On March 16th members of a legendary Peruvian cumbia band, Armonía 10, were heading from one packed concert venue to the next...
Talks over the Chagos Islands show the rising clout of Mauritius
In a tatty office in Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius, Olivier Bancoult points to the tricolour flag on the wall. It is t...
One of the world’s biggest mega-malls is worryingly empty
On a recent Thursday afternoon, the Haikou International Duty Free City, a sprawling mega-mall on China’s southern island pro...
The assisted-dying bill isn’t dead. It is in limbo
Is the assisted-dying bill dead? Scouring the British headlines over the past week, you could be forgiven for thinking as muc...
What happens when Britain frees thousands of prisoners at once?
Few things are more certain to generate bad headlines than releasing thousands of prisoners early—as Britain’s government did...