On Bastille Day, 1883, the people of Limoges inaugurated a beautiful new town hall, paid for from the legacy of a rich ...

A summit between Xi Jinping, Putin and Trump in China is being planned to discuss the details of a Yalta-style carve-up of ...

Last week I got an email from a colleague I respect on another magazine, prefaced with the assertion that it concerned ‘a matter we feel will be of importance to you as an artist, writer or journalist ...

Sarah Helm, the wife of Britain’s national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, took flak last week after appearing to support Palestine Action, the banned terror ...

For this live edition of Coffee House Shots, James Heale and Lara Brown are joined by pollster and strategist Scarlett Maguire at the Battle of Ideas Festival to unpack the party conference season and ...

France has had its share of riots in recent years but the scenes of urban warfare that erupted on Saturday were unprecedented ...

Limoges’s nineteenth-century town hall was set on fire and declared largely lost. The prefect’s residence in Bordeaux was ...

There was once a time, some 100 years ago, where one could take a walk around town and be met with an unmistakable cry: ‘I’ve got my Lloyd-George,’ the pensioner down the street would proclaim, with a ...

Kyiv’s long-range drone operators have gone high-tech: in the past few days, Ukrainian drones attacked three massive data centres belonging to Yandex, Russia’s internet services giant. For a while, it ...

Tom Wolfe in the 1970s dubbed it “The Me Decade.” It has extended a while beyond that – we are living in the “Me Century” ...

I hereby officially declare autumn open! I am picturing myself bedecked with a wreath of perfect autumn leaves. The bright October sun beams down, warming the cool, crisp air. I am dressed in jewel ...

Altai was acting according to his instincts; there is no justice delivered or example set by killing him, only the loss of a beautiful animal ...