Critics point out that the only other nation where religious leaders sit in parliament simply because of their clerical posts is Iran. This is not a comfortable comparison.

Britain has clearly decided that he can’t deliver lectures about the need to abide by global treaties and be delinquent itself.

The Springfield pet-eating saga is a tale of an astonishing defence of deception during an election campaign to grub up votes. What’s even more worrying, it could work.

Labour MP Jas Athwal described himself as the renters’ champion. But he may have acted as the sort of errant landlord that he and his party complain about so loudly

Alongside the angry denunciations of racist thuggery, ministers will also have to consider how to defuse the deep unease about the scale of immigration in many parts of the country,

Be it Britain or the US, on both sides of the Atlantic, politicians with a connection to India are becoming much more numerous and prominent.

Rishi Sunak chose to hold the election several months early to catch opposition parties by surprise; but his gambit has backfired, and the Conservatives’ collapse is more severe than appeared likely even a few weeks ago.

The whole poorly-handled scandal has further corroded trust in the Conservative Party that was already sinking below the water line.

The really damning case against Sunak is that he has repeatedly demonstrated poor political judgement.

Britain’s prime minister has announced a surprise decision to hold a general election six months early, on July 4.

What’s really corrosive is the gnawing anxiety that there must be other shocking scandals still to surface and other cover-ups still underway. 

Sometimes protests don’t quite land the message they want to disseminate.

On the Richter scale of news stories, India’s election is so far barely measuring a two – while the Middle East is a six even on quieter days, and a full-on seismic eight when salvos of drones and missiles fly across international borders.

The BBC audio series 'Three Million' presents the famine as living history rather than a distant episode.

Shreela Flather was unquestionably a pioneer, with the strength of character to succeed in areas which were not then welcoming to Asians, and certainly not to Asian women.

Exactly 150 years after they were plundered by a British military expedition, more than 30 exquisite pieces of Asante gold held by the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum are being returned to Ghana on a 'long-term loan'.

Trump seems set to be the Republican candidate for a third successive presidential election, while Biden will be part of the Democratic ticket for the fourth time in five elections. America’s democracy seems to have lost the ability to renew itself.

More than 70 countries will hold nationwide elections of some sort.

As a measure to limit immigration, the British government announced that the minimum income required to bring a foreign spouse into the country on a family visa will rise sharply.

Across much of the world, voters are turning to populists who are intensely distrustful of the institutions on which liberal democracy is built.