NATO is meeting this week at a moment of very real crisis. Donald Trump’s second presidency has thrown the globalised world order into chaos. Old certainties are being torn up. Trump threatens to ...

Starmer couldn't be clearer: Britain must prepare for war To spend 3% of GDP on defence, the PM needs to find an extra £13bn. That's difficult, especially when the government could U-turn on some ...

Clement Attlee was the ... The UK's armed forces must move to "war-fighting readiness" over the coming years, the UK faces a "more serious and immediate" threat than anytime since the Cold War, ...

Christopher Hill’s work on 17th-century England has been remarkably influential. In books like The World Turned Upside Down, he recovered the history of vanquished radicals like the Levellers and the ...

A conference session including Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Joseph Stalin, ... Because of the deepening Cold War, Truman never saw Stalin again. Monday, August 6, ...

Seventy-five years ago, Britain was still recovering from the Second World War. Many goods were still rationed, but Clement Attlee's Labour government had introduced long-lasting changes to ...

Why Keir Starmer is more like Clement Attlee than you ... leading to a new arms race and the start of the Cold War. Attlee and Bevin responded in part by facilitating the creation of Nato in ...

Rachel Reeves should take a leaf out of Clement Attlee's book and fund a complete rearmament ... and the Cold War are testament to the fact that decisions made at those times to rearm were ...

Clement Attlee, Britain’s prime minister, ... As the cold-war historian John Lewis Gaddis has argued, “influence, in democratic alliances, flows in multiple directions: ...

Harry S. Truman (middle) with British Prime Minister Clement Attlee (left) and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference (July 17 to August 2, 1945). Public Domain. The 1947 Truman Doctrine was crucial ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sir Keir Starmer told MPs on Tuesday that Britain was confronting a “world where everything has changed ...

Clement Attlee’s post-war Labour government built “not only a new Jerusalem but a new Sparta”, wrote David Edgerton, a historian. In the 1950s defence spending matched health and welfare ...