'We need a national debate about the kind of country we now hope to be; and we need it now.'

The architect of the EU’s hard line on Brexit

The author of one of the greatest German autobiographies is also an Anglophile man of letters

"There are plenty of precedents for leaders of the free world going it alone"

As the EU tries to abolish the nation state, a Hobbesian concept of national sovereignty is the basis of the US President’s emerging doctrine

The German artist Käthe Kollwitz suffered darkness and depression but emerges from a show at the Ikon Gallery as an indomitable survivor

Can the West defend itself? On the face of it, the question answers itself: of course we can. And yet Donald Trump has called into question its very survival.

An inscription in an old book is the clue to a lost world of literary salons and love affairs

Freedom and democracy are under threat and the West’s response is increasingly feeble. Who is prepared to defend our fundamental values?