Sir Keir Starmer had plenty of choices to take a victory lap after local elections in England on May 2nd. The Labour leader could have nipped to Swindon, home to a classic marginal constituency, where ...

South Africa is undeniably a free country. The hidebound evil of apartheid is gone. A liberal constitution helps ensure South ...

President Joe Biden condemned the violence that has swept university campuses all over America. “There’s the right to protest ...

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Mr Macron’s critics called it a mix of electioneering, the usual French self-interest and the intellectual vanity of a ...

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Despite its dubious value, Donald Tusk, the prime minister, said he would finish the final 900 metres. Other projects can ...