The UK’s relationship with the Continent has always been fraught. But history shows there is no neat answer to where Britain belongs

The refugee influx means that the EU will soon scrap its freedom of movement rules to cope with a crisis lasting for another half-century

"It feels as if the country is beginning to unravel, that it is slipping towards ungovernability. Perhaps it can still be pulled back together but nothing is certain"

South Africa's new leader has a near-impossible task ahead of him

When the greatest living Irishman came to lecture in Cape Town, he had to defend free speech against the anti-apartheid boycott

Jeremy Corbyn is riding high after an unexpectedly successful election campaign. But his party has more to do to attract Middle England 

Under its new president, the United States is becoming increasingly polarised and a debt-led boom won’t help matters in the long run

Jacob Zuma's hold on South African politics is weakening, throwing the ANC into crisis

The current influx of refugees from the Middle East will be dwarfed by a huge wave of Africans desperate to escape from poverty and hunger

Antisemitism is on the rise in South Africa and the ANC have done much to encourage it

The Jewish exodus from France shows that Islam’s rapid growth has caused a crisis for the Continent’s oldest minority. Bromides won’t do any more

A Nazi Unitarian father, expulsion from South Africa and a ménage à trois: the author of ‘Porterhouse Blue’ lived a complicated existence

Most of the world-beating cricket team of the 1970s were anti-apartheid. Now they are shut out from the national game

Britain quietly allowed anti-apartheid exiles to run guerrilla operations from London as long as they stayed off the streets

'I would like to think that all the politically correct Brits who lined up to condemn me for "juxtapositional racism" might say a word or two about the extinction of media freedom in a major Commonwealth country, but I am not holding my breath'

The South African judge's Gaza report is just another example of his intensely political attitude to the law

The new president will be welcomed by most ordinary Africans, if not by their rulers