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 ...

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has had a rather good few months, with a number of opinion polls showing the Clacton MP’s party ...

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 ...

Australia is supposed to be a nation of tolerance and acceptance – the one place in a troubled world where people of ...

The ‘Trump effect’ has had little effect on Peter Dutton. Families will continue to pay the Paris premium on their ...

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

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

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

MPs waved through Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying bill by 330 votes to 275. Some of those who backed it at second reading ...