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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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