"The isle is full of noises", read the tempestuous pledge on the giant Olympic bell. From the moment that our latest British sporting great, the Belgian-born cycling hero Bradley Wiggins, rang the giant Whitechapel bell, and Kenneth Branagh began to narrate a story of this sceptred isle, Danny Boyle's opening...

How do you solve a problem like a rising population? And, if it is a problem, what type of problem is it.

That is a debate immediately being sparked by the first results from the 2011 census, revealing that the population of England and Wales is now 56.1 million, rising...

The terrible racist murder of schoolchildren in Toulouse has shocked France.

With just five weeks to go, speculation has immediately begun about how the shootings will affect the French Presidential election. The snapshot view seems to be that the Toulouse shootings may well have "turned the race upside down". The...

Nobody can predict where the fallout from the News of the World phone-hacking scandal will end up, because the old assumptions have crumbled, while nobody knows what the rules of the game are going to be.

News International has been for three decades the most aggressive and confident corporation in...