I’ve just started work as feline relations consultant (semi-retired) to the new Governor of Bermuda. I’ve been busy meeting very welcoming Bermudians.” The Foreign Office added that Palmerston “will ...

Stewart’s meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides is set for 3pm. The UN diplomat will then cross to the north for his meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar an hour later.

I was highly amused to see that JD Vance has administered a right old ‘fagging’ – or whatever public school boys call it – to ...

The widespread political purges of the early 1950s echo clearly today. Seventy years ago, the reasonable pretext of hunting ...

Exploring the relationship between Neil Young and George Harrison, including why The Beatles guitarist hated his work, and ...

Donald Trump has begun his second term as president by ramping up pressure on Panama – threatening to “take back” the Panama ...

A Balliol man picked an intellectual fight with an American “hillbilly” yesterday, and guess who won? Yep, the “hillbilly”.

When Count Peter Vay, a Hungarian diplomat and writer, visited Seoul in late November 1902, he was somewhat amused by the ...

Stop the presses! In this age of 24-hour news and social media, it’s easy to get cynical about the Fourth Estate. But even ...

The remark disgusted some Foreign Service officers, infuriated others, and displeased even those who were looking forward to the new administration.” So began what — until now — was the largest purge ...