Thank God for great European leaders, like Merkel, whose idiosyncratic approach to border control played such an understated role in last year’s Brexit vote.
“Let us renew the relationship that can lead the world towards the promise of freedom and prosperity marked out by those ordinary citizens 240 years ago.”
“We need to recognise the way in which a more global and individualistic world can sometimes loosen the ties that bind our society together.”
In large part, it has taken the post-truth idea up because of its own electoral weakness – and the feeling that it may not be just temporary.
To defeat populists on the right, liberal conservatives must show that immigration, like globalisation, benefits this country and its people,
America, Egypt, Pakistan: former allies are finding reasons to distance themselves.
The mythical post-Brexit ideal of unfettered access to the Single Market most closely resembles deals only open to less developed countries.
By 2030, technology and cyber space will have changed warfare to such an extent that spending billions of pounds on nuclear weapons will look practically pre-historic.
Whether we measure literacy or longevity, infant mortality or sexual equality, the world in 2015 was a better place during this past twelve months.
We cannot know. But however important that question is, it should not be the only one that MPs ask if they vote on bombing ISIS in Syria – or even the main one.
The fourth article in our series on international aid questions the decision to pay development money to nations which routinely oppress religious minorities.
The local Tory leader says that the police are turning a blind eye to the flouting of electoral law, public subsidies for mosques, and expressions of support for Hitler.
A new report, and an event tomorrow, highlight the plight of people throughout the world persecuted for practising their faith – especially by extremist Islamist groups.