Magical thinking about the future is not confined to the cabinet. Just ask the Office for Budget [...]

There are a lot of people hoping he’ll be turfed out of office soon – but first the Democrats have to start winning [...]

If Hollywood has shown us anything, it’s that powerful white men are always given another chance. The cycle of public transgression, humiliation, apology and rehabilitation is nowhere better exemplified than in the case of Kathy Griffin, the US comedian who got into trouble earlier this year for holding up a model [...]

Carles Puigdemont’s speech shocked those waiting for a declaration of victory – federalism, rather than face-saving, may be the way [...]

Decriminalisation of the sex trade benefits pimps and brothel-owners, not women. Abolition is the only progressive [...]

There are fair ways to recalibrate the relationship with Madrid, but the plight of the Catalan working class cannot be [...]

In Catalonia and the former East Germany, the shadow of 20th-century traumas still falls on EU citizens, and blights the future of [...]

The United States needs new gun laws. But first it needs to shed the myths that sustain its reliance on [...]

We define intelligence as “the ability to learn or understand” or “the ability to apply knowledge”; yet 95% of brain activities are unconscious and driven by gut feelings and intuitions without formal [...]

Brussels has to adhere to its own rulebook even if it looks feeble. It has no mechanism for secession [...]