Unfortunately for Germany, and for Europe, identification of the likely source might end a chapter, but it does not end the story. Germany's response defied the country's postwar image many times over, and not in a good way. A country admired for its...

In an article written to promote it, Mr Jones suggested that "chav-bashing by those from pampered backgrounds is a continuing national scandal and must be opposed", and that the real working class "has been all but airbrushed from existence". Each of...

Granted she has her new film, The Beaver, starring Gibson, to promote, so you might expect a little hyperbole. But this is blockbusting turd-polishing. Over the last five years, Gibson has revealed himself to be a violent racist, blaming Jewish peopl...

In these days of sexting and dirty direct messaging, he is no longer the totem he once was. The tragic hero was the man we felt a desperate, tugging pain for when he toppled himself unwittingly from a position of honour and nobility. But these days, ...

After all, it has seen what happened in Egypt, where Hosni Mubarak faces jail or perhaps even the death penalty. So who is controlling the situation? It is clear that Bashar al-Assad doesn't have his own army and security people under control, and in...

In Syria, thousands of troops are assaulting the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour where the government claims 120 of its soldiers and police were killed last week. Leaving aside exactly how they died, the government in Damascus is making it lethally...

The life of the city of Athens was a remarkable period in culture: the two or three centuries around the life and death of Socrates (469-399BC) gave us Socrates himself, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, the Stoics, the Sceptics, the Cynics and the Eclecti...

The Swedish car manufacturer is not happy with the secret document's association of Volvo (and Brown) with the attributes "dependable, robust but ultimately dour". But perhaps Volvo (and the Brown team before them in 2006) are making a mistake in see...

The Archbishop of Canterbury had no regrets about skewering the coalition in the New Statesman when I caught up with him on Thursday night. Rowan Williams was the guest of honour at the launch of A N Wilson's biography of the poet Dante, and the b...