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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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