It’s obvious, but no less grim for it, that Britain is in decline. We’ve known for years that our wages have been stagnant, that inflation is rising even as growth stalls, that our towns and cities ...

Beyond, up a gentle slope, looms Russia. Finns used to drive across here to fill up on half-price gasoline. That was before Russia started pushing migrants across the two countries’ roughly 830-mile ...

As the war in Europe ended, Allied leaders faced a new crisis after the Soviet Union tightened control over Poland and ignored promises linked to Yalta. Churchill ordered British planners to assess a ...

Some people are put on earth to do more than one big thing. Winston S. Churchill was such a man. If he had just been the new prime minister inspiring his people’s courage — the incarnation of Britain ...

She held the office of prime minister longer than any other British politician in the 20th century, setting her country on a right-leaning economic path.

April 1945 was the end of the war in Europe, and everyone knew it, except the men still issuing orders in Berlin. As over 2 ...

The lecture that became one of the most consequential speeches in world history took place on March 5, 1946. Churchill came ...

There is no such thing as a free ride in geopolitics. But given the immense misery caused by the Iranian theocracy and its ...

Eighty years after Winston Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech, its warning against totalitarianism resonates amid modern ...

Harry Cockburn reports on how 80 years of the 'special relationship' have informed international conflict, after Donald Trump lashed out at the British prime minister ...

On April 30 1945, in his Berlin bunker, Adolf Hitler shot himself dead. Yet despite the efficacy of that bullet, his fate has ...

After the second world war, Soviet intervention transformed China’s Communist Party from a battered, marginalised guerrilla force into a heavily armed military machine. Read histories approved by the ...