I’m walking down the street on a weekday morning, heading for the shops to do some banking and check the post box, when I see a couple approaching from a distance. I am already anticipating how I ...

Maeve Brennan (1917-93) was a supremely gifted Irish/American writer, whose work is periodically rediscovered, only to vanish ...

It is rare to read a book about Cicero that likens its hero to a demagogue. Rome’s prosecutor of conspiracy and corruption in ...

When José Saramago denounced the Bible as a ‘catalogue of cruelties’ at the launch of his novel Cain in 2009, the response ...

Whenever a new study of the Nazi regime appears, it is taken as a given that after Adolf Hitler seized power and became ...

My cat can smell depression. Another family cat could smell my stepfather’s dementia. They both became more affectionate and ...

So, in the end, Prince Harry folded. His much-ballyhooed case about News Group Newspapers, publishers of the Sun, which was ...

We were once known as a nation of shopkeepers. We are now a nation of shoplifters. As the Times reported last week, citing ...

Kemi Badenoch had her best Prime Minister’s Questions yet today. She alighted on a topic that Keir Starmer really struggled ...

Donald Trump has told Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine. ‘Settle now, and STOP this ridiculous war!’ he… ...

Oh dear… it appears that birthday and greetings cards are sexist. This is, at least, the claim of a group of MPs who have ...

The government can take away your liberty for moving furniture, I get that now. When it makes you into a… ...