What happened next at USAID
ON JANUARY 28th the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, issued an “emergency humanitarian waiver” to exempt life-saving aid from...
London is ageing twice as quickly as the rest of England
Some londoners dream of retiring to cottages by the sea. But Nick Sanderson, the chief executive of Audley Group, believes th...
Six of the best films about love
LITTLE IS KNOWN about Saint Valentine. He may have been a Roman priest or the bishop of Terni. He may have performed secret w...
China’s stunning new campaign to turn the world against Taiwan
FOR THOSE anxious about Chinese aggression towards the self-ruled island of Taiwan, there was a welcome signal at the end of ...
Britain’s review body for criminal convictions is struggling
On February 3rd the Criminal Cases Review Commission received an application from Lucy Letby’s lawyers claiming the former nu...
The Lucy Letby case shows systemic failure and a national malaise
IT IS HARD to know which is more shocking. Is it the murder of seven babies and attempted killing of seven others at the Coun...
Does intermittent fasting work?
Diets come and diets go. One of the most popular today is “intermittent fasting” in which, as the name suggests, the idea is ...
Guatemala is grappling with a globetrotting Jewish “cult”
Officials in Guatemala are dealing with a strange situation. They have seized about 140 children from Lev Tahor, a fringe Jew...
Donald Trump’s Super Bowl tariffs are an act of self-harm
Last year dozens of countries proposed or introduced new tariffs on steel imports. Most aimed the measures at China, which th...
BP is underperforming and under pressure
Ever since John Browne vowed to turn BP green some 25 years ago, the British oil giant has experienced a series of embarrassi...