One of the pleasures of reading, often looked down on in literary circles, is when one warms to an author’s characters. Among ...

Who would you invite to your ideal dinner party? Plato answered that question centuries ago with his sublime Symposium, a ...

Arms outstretched, head thrown back, flounced skirt rippling over a raised leg. The 1942 photograph of Sophie Maslow dancing ...

In late 2018 a Saudi journalist living in exile in Canada, who liked to work out in between recording YouTube critiques of ...

Three generations ago, Britain and the United States joined forces to propose the establishment of a revamped international rules-based system to remake the world. This was initially articulated in ...

‘Growth’ – the focus of the Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ speech this morning – can be a confusing word. It’s intangible,… ...

The BBC licence fee is dying as millions of Britons realise that they do not need a television; they can get all the ...

Kemi Badenoch may well have been right in the points that she made at Prime Minister’s Questions, but she managed to go about ...

Has Rachel Reeves got her growth? Today’s speech from the Chancellor in Oxfordshire was not this government’s first attempt ...

As expected, Rachel Reeves used her big – and long – growth speech this morning to back the expansion of Heathrow and argue that Britain was taking too long to make decisions on ...

Rachel from accounts is settling up. In a speech at Siemens Healthineers near Oxford, the Chancellor signalled her commitment ...

Great stuff from Kemi Badenoch at PMQs. She was entertaining, tricky, probing, unpredictable. If she keeps this up she may ...