A friend started a conversation with me about the Vox article "The Smug Style in American Liberalism", but he thought "smug" applied pretty well to both edges of the political spectrum. I thought about it and I think he may be right.

As North Yorkshire prepares to decide on Third Energy's plans to frack in the county, we hear from its boss on love, lies and fighting back.

After today's inquest verdicts on the Hillsborough victims, the Sun has little alternative but to sack columnist - and editor at the time of the disaster - Kelvin MacKenzie.

"I'm actually voting Trump this year." I saw a little bit of anxiety in his eyes, but I lit up. "Can I... ask you a few questions?" I opened my notebook. "I'd like to write about you." Anonymously, of course. So I'm going to tell you

A leading civil servant nicknamed Darth Vader bungles his appearance before Parliament's financial watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee,explaining why the government has failed to confiscate the assets of criminals.

Why do people think of Los Angeles as ugly? Does it have to do with its scale? Its inconsistent architecture? Its departure from classical city forms? Or is it something deeper: a sense of apocalypse, of meaninglessness, a confrontation wit

Culture Secretary's former lover was more than just a dominatrix- she had criminal connections that raise serious questions about Whittingdale's judgement.

Summons served on organisations and judges in Israel for child trafficking.

How a Chechen kid from a poor village turned radical and became Islamic State's minister of war.

The cycle of violence in Palestine can only be broken if the Israeli occupation ends. Newton's theory about every action producing a reaction best illustrates this issue.

The reason why European economies are stuck in the trenches is actually quite simple. Our governments have shot themselves in the foot.

For the fourth year running, Singapore fell yet again in Reporters Without Borders' World Press Freedom Index. It is now in 154th place, below countries like Mexico, Pakistan, Burma and Qatar. But what does it mean? How does it feel to be a