Northern Europeans are tying themselves in knots about patriotism and identity politics

How the Pentagon discovered renewable energy

Wolf Totem is a disconcerting mixture of nationalism, lupine metaphors and nostalgia for the age of nomads. But what does the novel’s runaway success tell us of the aspirations of the new China?

In the second in our series on religion and public life, a leading Dominican theologian argues that only a recovery of the Judeo-Christian tradition can enable Islam to find its place in Britain

From the Beatles and Wilson to Bono and Blair, the rise of rock stars to power and influence has tempted leaders all over the world to cultivate them - even at the risk of ridicule

While America prepares for the next wave of terrorist attacks, Britain is sleepwalking. Yet it is not too late to avert disaster

The West is a gift to Kremlin propagandists; we should express more pride in our system that has given genuine freedom to millions

We must pay for cathedrals of knowledge if scientists are to solve the great mysteries of the universe

Christianity is central to British identity, but its marginalisation has created a moral vacuum which radical Islam threatens to fill

Family courts are putting parents on trial for their children. Instead of helping to keep families together, these secretive tribunals are breaking them apart—often for trivial reasons