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Just after 1am on Friday the Romanian military detected numerous Russian drones flying “in the vicinity” of the country’s airspace. The drones were part of a major attack on neighbouring Ukraine, but

Before I walked into Ruby’s room, I always paused at the door and put on a smile. It became a ritual. However bad the day had been, however frightened or tired I was, I would stop for a second, breath

On a warm May evening in Thiseio, beneath the Acropolis, Alexis Tsipras stepped back into the centre of Greek politics. The former prime minister and former Syriza leader announced the Greek Left Alli

A golden rule in politics is that anything badged as “radical” or “bold” is the exact opposite. Tony Blair’s much publicised essay on the future of the country has left this rule safely intact. In kee

Burnhamism, as a field of academic research, appears to be in a state of disarray. Those of us who study Andy Burnham have to admit collectively that we do not know some very basic things about Burnha

“I hope you’re doing more than scratching your chin on this lovely bank holiday weekend,” came the first joshing message on Sunday. Others followed suit. My friends were teasing me after I had appeare

Everything in the world is about food, apart from restaurants, which are about real estate. That’s what Jeremy King, the Pater Patriae of the London restaurant scene, would have you believe, anyway. B

Not only the big letters on the building have changed; someone made sure the name on a small maintenance van now reads “Trump Kennedy Center”. But the renaming of the Kennedy Center – Washington DC’s

Miles Davis, the trumpeter, band leader, innovator, proud African American and icon of cool, would be celebrating his 100th birthday on 26 May had he not departed in 1991. His sound and renown are mor

Right now, any mention of viruses is likely to spark panic. The emergence of the deadly hantavirus on a cruise ship has triggered all the worst memories of the early stages of the Covid pandemic, ju

In early 1984, Tony Benn, who had lost his seat the previous year, sought a way back into parliament via the Chesterfield by-election. Peter Kellner, the New Statesman’s political editor at the time,

Prospero or Lear? Is Tony Blair today the magician, bringing resolution and harmony to this strange and fought-over island; or is he an exiled and bewildered king, raging against the ruined land he fi

The luck of the Irish began not with shamrocks but in tunnels beneath the Nevada Desert in 1873. John Mackay, a Dublin-born miner, after two decades searching for gold struck what became known as the

I remember the first time I was sent out as a reporter on work experience to ask members of the public what they thought about something in the news. It was the summer of 2011 and I was spending a cou

A woman gets engaged and promptly receives a note from another woman who claims to be intimately intertwined with her new fiancé. Scandalously, that woman is the fiancé’s own sister-in-law, and she do

There’s a back story to Backrooms. Since 2011, a creepy photo has circulated on message boards: a slanted entrance into a large empty room, all yellow, with grotty wallpaper, carpet and floating ceili

The co-founder of a campaign raising concerns about maternity care at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH), claims that senior doctors, midwives, and clerical workers at the hospital

Alan Milburn, who was health and social care secretary between 1999 and 2003, has published his landmark interim report on Neets. These are the almost 1 million young people between the ages of 18-24

Justice is a balancing act. When the state considers sending someone to prison, three broad questions are asked. Is this person a danger to the public? Is the crime they have committed serious enough

Health inequalities in the UK are well documented. But few conditions expose their scale as clearly as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COPD is a serious, progressive lung disease affecti