The other night, tears flowed down my face. I hadn’t cried that hard since my father died 15 years ago. As three more members of my immediate family died in the decade following my dad’s death, I cried less for each one until, eventually, I had no more tears to shed whenever anything sad happened in my [...]

As sanctions on Russia were started in 2014 and have been gradually escalating some of the Russian oligarchs embraced re-profiling their companies to the Western ones. It seemed a good way to go for those of businessmen who are heavy reliant on export volumes and US and European investments. Such is metal production [...]

Fanatical. Deluded. Emotive nonsense. These are unusually strong terms for a judge to use, particularly in a case as intensely sad and bitterly contested as that of the terminally ill child Alfie Evans. Yet Mr Justice Hayden, referring to some of the campaigners now surrounding Alfie’s parents, did not mince his [...]