As Tim Bouverie shows in his masterful new diplomatic history of the war, the prime minister was right, both in his ...

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In his first year in office, Keir Starmer, 62, has had to leverage Britain’s modest authority on the international stage to ...

Churchill was a prolific weeper and Obama’s propensity to cry in public did him no harm. If only Rachel Reeves were offered ...

The columns of the Stornoway Gazette in June and July 1945 were dominated by coverage of the General Election campaign in the ...

History may not repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now finds himself in ...

On 25 July, the day before his election disaster became clear, Winston Churchill and his outstanding foreign secretary, Anthony Eden, flew back to London from Potsdam, where they had been taking ...

Winston Churchill could muse about the virtues of diplomacy, reportedly saying “Jaw, Jaw and War, War” or words to that ...

A man of intellectual arrogance and social insecurity with a contempt for ‘blue bloods’ who dominated top ranks of the ...

Reduced to its essence, a jury trial is little more than a “once upon a time” story about heroes and villains. To prevail in ...

There is no overestimating the triumphalism in the Israeli Prime Minister’s circle, but the cascading effects of the war ...