Politics & Economics

I wanted to visit La Guajira to learn about the US airstrike on Venezuela but also to see genuine resistance. Under attack from the US, who better to turn to than a people who have preserved their languages...

Peter Murrell squandered the SNP’s reputation on £42,660 worth of Amazon packages and a necklace from a Shetland jeweller that Nicola Sturgeon thought was a sweet gift. Outside the court,...

For years politicians had taken it for granted that they could profit from the grey economy of French politics. Sarkozy’s mistake was to take it too far. He was unable to spot the difference between...

Marwan Barghouti enjoys unparallelled popularity and is often described as Palestine’s Nelson Mandela. Like Mandela, he’s far from perfect, but his activism, his writings and his long imprisonment...

What would happen if these two very different societies were united, when their institutions and attitudes have evolved in such different ways? What are the political, economic and social advantages and...

Here is an antidote to current traps and poisons. People who rescue rather than attack, who move in a physical, not a virtual, world, who don’t morally triage others. Who put themselves in danger...

Whatever rash remarks he may have made about the bond markets or spending commitments, Andy Burnham understands something that Keir Starmer grasped too late: the unaffordability of everyday life has become...

In​ 2018, the German company Bayer bought the US agrochemical giant Monsanto, inheriting not just its vast portfolio of seeds and pesticides, but also thousands of lawsuits alleging that glyphosate,...

The beautiful game has never looked more beautiful on the pitch, or more ugly off it. We strain for the sake of our consciences to sequester the two, but Gianni Infantino’s Fifa has made that impossible.

In the 1960s, Lebanese society was divided between those who saw armed resistance against Israel as a national duty and those who believed it would inevitably lead to the country’s destruction....

Unlike 20th-century communism or fascism, contemporary Russian ideology does not have a clearly articulated manifesto or creed, but has been formed through successive smaller ideological conflicts. Putin...

Gavin Newsom describes himself as an ‘accidental politician’. The San Francisco mayor Willie Brown anointed him as his preferred successor, though the decisive factor was probably his ability...

Across Tigray, the remains of razed towns are marked with mounds of earth piled over the dead – impressions of war still visible in satellite photographs. A shadow economy has also etched itself...

It might be wise not to be too optimistic about Andy Burnham bringing miracles of delivery, and focus instead on his willingness to question the long-prevailing economic consensus; where Starmer seems...

What makes a game liberating to play is also what makes it stifling and oppressive: in both cases it’s because the rules are arbitrary. At the social level the scoring systems that are needed to...

Despite a few halting steps towards devolving power in Britain, England itself remains a profoundly centralised country, in which national politics always dominates. So why not send a national message?...

Many of those who had been involved in the war’s inception saw the chaotic Nato withdrawal in August 2021 as a betrayal both of Afghanistan and of the project of American power in the world. As...

If it were an industry, money laundering would be the third biggest business in the world, behind commercial property and ahead of pensions. How did we end up knowing so little about something so big?