For a while now a number of ‘issues’ are in the limelight in Pakistan. Every single politician talks about them, every analyst discusses them and the whole population chimes about them literally every ...

Our new First Minister has certainly shown this week that he needs no lessons from anyone when it comes to spin. In relation to the Gould report on May's elections he accepts the "whole report", ...

The course of history, Shakespeare reminds us, can be decided by the power of rhetoric – one individual may inspire, cajole, move others. At the end of the 1590s, he wrote two masterpieces – Henry V ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The peculiar spectacle that British voters had on Monday in lieu of a proper leadership debate was a television ...