Trump’s final favour to Europe is to hasten the post-Brexit rapprochement between the EU and the UK. Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron, the British and French leaders, have worked together closely ...

Translated by Olena Jennings and Oksana Rosenblum, Chekh’s portrait of Ukraine in the 1990s is unflinching. It is a place of alcoholism, violence and poverty. Yet Rock, Paper, Grenade is not without ...

Between the ages of 11 and 16, I wore a tie every school day. The thick, shiny bottle-green and gold-striped style was the bane of my teenage existence: a stuffy symbol of repression and tool for ...

Siri Sachs will become a non-executive of Wallenberg Investments, a new body designed to manage the multiple holdings, while Tessa Pilkington will join the board of Nineteen Private Capital, an ...

The concerto seemed in part designed for the intense energy that leaps off the French violinist’s strings. He played almost nonstop through the three linked movements and seemed to grow more forceful ...

Within days of her confirmation by the US Senate as Donald Trump’s new education secretary, Linda McMahon was promising to dissolve her own department.

Private infrastructure investors are poised to acquire NHS landlord Assura in a £1.6bn deal, marking the latest potential exit of a London-listed group from the UK market.

That’s not an aim that can be met by increasing defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP and having a vague plan to get to 3 per cent at some point in the future. (Yes, output targets are stupid in a ...

Headline cash pay growth slipped to 2.8 per cent in January from 4.4 per cent in December. Growth in one-off bonus payments fell 3.7 per cent after December’s 6.2 per cent rise, which helped pull the ...

Donald Trump has been urged to appoint a special envoy to Northern Ireland as US lawmakers warn of “genuine concern” over the ...

China has introduced retaliatory tariffs on about $22bn of US goods, including agricultural exports, targeting President Donald Trump’s rural base in the latest trade war escalation between the ...

Today, I explain the battle over how to spend the EU’s new €150bn defence fund, and ask whether medicines are Europe’s next foreign dependency set to be exploited. Ursula von der Leyen has nine days ...