The Eurozone has clearly gone spectacularly wrong, pulling down all the continental economies.

One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image.

Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time.

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.

To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.

I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold.

The Eurozone has clearly gone spectacularly wrong, pulling down all the continental economies.