The exodus is changing the West before our eyes. Lack of leadership has allowed the Continent to drift towards a form of cultural suicide.

New media technologies allow us to listen only to those we agree with. Journalists must fight that tendency

Unionists fear that the SNP represents all Scots and that a break-up of the United Kingdom is now inevitable. They don’t and it isn’t

Efraim Karsh's book on the creation of the modern Middle East is timely but overstates his case