With the exception of a few signatures, the only surviving example of William Shakespeare’s handwriting is said to be in the manuscript (preserved at the British Library) of The Book...

It remains a remarkable truth that we don’t know if the Donald Trump story will end after one presidential term, or two, or before the first is completed. Perhaps the...

I was a missionary. I am a missionary. I was never a politician”, was how Garfield Todd described himself, while happily agreeing that he had enjoyed being an MP and...

Few Western secret service chiefs have taken such a long view of intelligence as Yevgeny Primakov, director of the Moscow Institute of World Economy and International Relations in the 1980s....

In a grainy clip, shot from high above by a surreptitiously placed camera, we see a group of men, each wearing a single white glove, being stopped by soldiers. One...

Secretive, working on the fringes of legality when not actually persecuted, as calamitous when they briefly exercised power in Egypt as they had formerly been successful in galvanizing mass opposition,...

If you haven’t seen the Chinese sword, sandals and martial arts smash hit Dragon Blade – and you probably haven’t: it made less than £200 in its opening (and only)...

In the American political imagination, the 1979 hostage crisis at the US embassy in Tehran is an indelible trauma, as unforgettable an assault on the country as Pearl Harbor and...

The question of what to do with “battle hardened jihadists” returning from Syria and Iraq is preoccupying many governments, with more than a hundred countries having seen citizens flock to...

This book offers welcome news for the rebel”, declares Max Abrahms, one of the world’s leading experts on terrorism. It may seem odd, in a world filled with the fear...