A stranger has been sending me emails recently. A woman in her eighties who lives in Northumberland. Her messages are full of anecdotes of a life well-lived and reading them is like tripping and ...

It doesn’t take much these days to be marked out as a “rising star” in the current Conservative Party, or what remains of it. But in recent weeks, the hitherto unknown MP for the Weald of Kent, Katie ...

Immigration has always been an excuse or accelerant for far-right terrorism. In the 1940s, the right-wing Jewish terrorist group the Irgun engaged in terrorist acts not out of xenophobia, but to ...

“What’s it a picture of?” asked Theo, angry with himself that he had never heard of the painting and knew nothing of the artist. “An execution. One that’s about to happen, and the kneeling man with ...

Few former White House officials would find themselves listed in a terror watch file, but Stephen Miller is not just any official. Not that the Trump White House is a ...

Constance Higgins is a freelance journalist who has written for the Telegraph ...

Polls before last week’s Labour conference showed the party in deep trouble. The first post-conference polls have brought no relief. Ministers are asking two questions (and if they aren’t, they should ...

In June 2024, I visited Israel for the first time since the 7th October Hamas attack and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) assault on Gaza that followed. Since then—at the earliest—I have been appalled, ...

On the afternoon of 13th September I left Southwark Cathedral and headed for the Tube. I’d been attending the Festival of Preaching, a conference sponsored by Hymns Ancient and Modern, that promised ...

When I was a boy, neo-Nazis threatened to march on Skokie, Illinois, a town with a disproportionate number of Holocaust survivors. Aryeh Neier, then president of the American Civil Liberties Union ...

With wide shoulders and grey hair, Wael al-Dahdouh suits the nickname Al-Jabal, the mountain of Gaza. Throughout years of war reporting, Al Jazeera’s bureau chief in the Strip has been pictured in a ...

Historians will debate for ever and a day why the second Donald Trump government was so much more extreme than his first. So extreme that Trump’s second term, if unchecked, could launch a revolution ...