The shooting of a teenager by police has sparked a wave of violent protests across Greece. In the past couple of days hundreds of hooded and helmeted protesters have poured into the centre of Athens, hurling petrol bombs and stones at shopfronts, ban...

I've argued before that if the West wants to stop Russian expansionism, it has to take away the excuse for that expansionism - the oppression of Russian citizens in former colonies like Georgia, Ukraine or the Baltics. This oppression is real, and as...

British soldiers are operating at a breaking point.

You have to hand it to three US intelligence amigos: Donald Kerr , Tom Fingar and Mike McConnell. They don't just subscribe to the concepts of need to share and the responsibility to provide intelligence...

The Russian and Chinese veto of UNSC sanctions against Zimbabwe may in hindsight have been predictable, even inevitable, but on day of the vote they came as a clear surprise to many...

- The FT has news that London’s position as the dominant global financial hub is slipping, with the UK capital now tied with New York for top spot in the latest rankings. Elsewhere Barry Eichengreen and Kevin H. O’Rourke examine the latest economic...

After ‘Duke of Edinburgh asks female sea cadet if she works at a strip club’, the most popular story on the Telegraph website at the moment accuses the CIA of having secretly fed LSD to the villagers of Pont-Saint-Esprit in France in 1951. It’s a...

Click here to view the embedded video. It’s no wonder the markets are raising questions about UK public finances – neither of the main parties has anything approaching a clear message on fiscal tightening. From Labour, you get blithe assurances on...

Just to press on with the Daily Mail vendetta for a tad longer, the superb Will Tooke has caught the ‘newspaper’ in another piece of fakery. This time, taking liberties with James McKie, the war hero who threw a grenade back at the Taliban. I saw the...

In the early hours of this morning, the Daily Mail published an astonishing attack on Facebook under the title “I posed as a 14-year-old girl on Facebook. What followed will sicken you.” Here’s the opener: Even after 15 years in child protection,...