A novel that imagines a senile Russian ex-president in thrall to his crooked staff

Why should it be such a struggle to get the emergency services to run 24/7? It is here that overtime culture has proved most resilient

The referendum is about the small-minded grievance that Britons were never asked what they thought about Europe

Mary Dejevsky looks back on the life of the former KGB and FSB officer who dared to stand up to Vladimir Putin - and paid the ultimate price

A study that attempts to get to the bottom of the abduction of Japanese citizens by a paranoid North Korean regime

With the spotlight so narrowly on Litvinenko and his death, there was no room for any real consideration, or even curiosity - at least none that reached the public domain - about how the polonium arrived in the UK

If Isis cannot keep order, if it cannot delegate power when it moves on, then its authority may wane

David Cameron has been a bit of a star in the learning department; so much for the cliché of Old Etonian arrogance

David Cameron’s view  of Islamist extremism  as the struggle of a generation looks like a gross underestimate

Vladimir Putin is suddenly at the centre of a fast-changing diplomatic scene after being ostracised by the West

The greatest threat to the EU is not Russia, and not the meltdown in Syria and the Middle East, but the possibility of Britain leaving

Word is that the Egyptians were not happy about the evacuation from Sharm el-Sheikh, and it is not hard to understand why

Over the next four years Canada has the chance to become a test bed for key parts of what Corbyn represents

Bribery strikes at the heart of UK justice. It is pernicious; the slightest hint that is acceptable and it will only grow

They say that they will have to wait to buy a house, as though they are uniquely entitled to own a home in their 20s

The Gorbachev era is brought to life in rich detail yet some gaps remain