In this age of lies and delusions, the trickster may seem to be a peculiarly modern creature, but he or she is almost as old ...

Giorgia Meloni has emerged as one of the most significant politicians in Europe since she became Italy’s first female prime ...

The Boys, the entertaining debut novel by the literary critic Leo Robson, is set in Swiss Cottage during the 2012 London ...

It’s hard to classify this thought-provoking book – part memoir, part philosophical exploration, but mostly a deeply ...

Since Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, the Russian press has been slowly, methodically strangled, which has forced ...

Ettore Majorana vanished in March 1938. According to Frank Close in Destroyer of Worlds, the 31-year-old Sicilian physicist ...

There isn’t another actor alive whom I’d rather watch than Michael Douglas. Just as Pauline Kael once said that the thought ...

Nathalia Holt’s book begins irresistibly. The year is 1928. Two sons of Theodore Roosevelt called Ted and Kermit – yes I know ...

Uh oh. After Sir Keir Starmer’s embarrassing U-turn on his government’s welfare bill last night – where changes to Personal ...

It was already a bad enough week for the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and the Chancellor Rachel Reeves, what with the ...

Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, 46, shed a single tear from the front row of the government benches in ...

All is not well on the Labour front benches. As Sir Keir Starmer defends his welfare U-turn in the Commons – after last night ...