The death of democracy is trumpeted today as loudly as the end of history once was

Leadership now more often belongs to 60- and 70-somethings than to 40-somethings

Theresa May has chosen the harshest possible interpretation of the referendum result

Turning off the TV set on the US president is not an option but nor is submission

Doubts abound over the US president’s moves on North Korea and Iran

The chancellor still has a chance to show that national and mutual interest can merge

Today’s protesters want to cling on to the past, not seize the future

Demands for repatriation of artefacts seized by marauders are becoming hard to resist

It is now fashionable to dismiss the assumptions of the post-cold war order

Only Sino-American understanding can ensure lasting agreement on the Korean peninsula

As the clock ticks, the UK’s position only grows weaker

Reining in big digital players will deprive populists of a powerful weapon

Apologists for a revanchist Russia confuse engagement with submission

The UK chancellor’s Spring Statement contained glimmers of good news

Labour’s would-be chancellor plans to nationalise the railways and shackle the banks

America’s embrace of belligerent nationalism has collapsed its political authority abroad

Strip out the noise, and the North Korean leader has outsmarted his opponent at every turn

Remain-backing financier is an easy but inexact target for unhappy leavers

Berlin has not shrunk from the darkest chapters of continental history

The country is upending the policies that have set its national course for 50 years

The UK government has no clear vision of Britain’s future relationship with Europe