Features
Permanent stalemate in Gaza suits Netanyahu
Jerusalem After midnight on Thursday is dead-time for the Israeli media. The weekend editions have gone to print (newspapers don’t…
Why Latvia is expelling its Russian speakers
Riga, Latvia At the age of 74, Inessa Novikova, who is ethnically Russian, was told she had to learn Latvian…
Please stop clapping at funerals
The Happy Clappies – evangelical Christians who clap along to worship songs during church services – have been around since…
The tragedy of Blackpool
It’s mid-afternoon in the Royal Oak pub in Blackpool and Liv has arrived to sell a bag full of stuff…
Why Britain stopped working
What sent the economy into recession at the end of last year? The government blames higher interest rates, ushered in…
Putin’s British prisoner: Vladimir Kara-Murza is languishing in a Siberian jail
Opposing Vladimir Putin is a lethal business. The world was reminded of this last week after the sudden death of…
The fight to save an ancient City synagogue from developers
There was a little number, 223, pasted onto the back of one of the centuries-old wooden seats in Bevis Marks…
