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Kim Leadbeater has described her assisted suicide bill as ‘potentially one of the most important changes in legislation that we…

Dear Secretary of State, thank you for meeting me and one of my deputies on Monday. You will have noticed…

My obituaries habit gets ever stronger. I find there’s nothing as inspiring or instructive or entertaining as reading a few…

‘My knife is at your throat,’ says a Turkish barber, wielding a razor blade around Maximilian Krah’s face. Krah, one…

There’s no statute of limitations on reporting a government minister’s embarrassing oops-a-daisy. It’s no good them doing a duck-dive, hoping…

Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, flew to Brussels for an EU summit, sought a ‘reset’ of relations and…

The Foreign Secretary describes his approach to diplomacy as ‘progressive realism’. One can legitimately ask what is progressive about a…

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Nigel Farage claimed he would put together the biggest political rally in British history to launch Reform UK’s local election…

When I visited Toronto with a UK delegation last winter, conversation focused on the issues of immigration, housing and inflation…

‘This is an assault!’ I screamed in my study, oblivious to the fact that my husband had a guest downstairs.…

In 1603, James VI managed to do what few thought possible. The self-styled first King of Great Britain succeeded in…

President Trump’s role in relation to other countries resembles that of the Fool in Shakespeare. He provides a sort of…

The number of people arriving here in small boats has increased since Sir Keir Starmer was elected Prime Minister on…

The new administration in Washington has somewhat startled its critics by issuing a blizzard of executive orders during its opening…

Suetonius’s Lives of the Caesars appears in a vibrant new translation by Tom Holland, the current princeps of popular Roman history

Seen by fellow pupils as an obnoxious loner, Bill Gates was a rebellious teenager, challenging his teachers and ‘at war’ with his parents

Yvonnick Denoël reveals how, since the mid-20th century, a scandalous number of priests have acted as communist moles

Studies suggest that a third of coral reef sharks and more than half of pelagic sharks may be wiped out as a result of overfishing, habitat loss and pollution

Lunar souvenirs are slumping, but Martian rocks are soaring as today’s super-rich fight to get the best fragments from space on their desks

Adelle Stripe has constructed a memoir around 18 key fragrances, but it is the Body Shop’s cheery Dewberry that evokes her worst teenage experience

Born in 1932, Eric Tucker created his art not for exhibition or in pursuit of fame but simply because he felt compelled to do so

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Oliver! directed by Matthew Bourne is billed as a ‘fully reconceived’ version of Lionel Bart’s musical. Very little seems to…

The overture to The Flying Dutchman opens at gale force. There’s nothing like it; Mendelssohn and Berlioz both painted orchestral…

If you were a frequent viewer of Top Gear in its Clarkson/Hammond/May era, there is a particular laugh you will…

The Seed of the Sacred Fig is by the Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof and all you need to know is…

Next week, after the première of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s new opera Festen, the cast and conductor will take their bow. All…

It is a truth universally acknowledged that lazy journalists begin every piece about Jane Austen with the words ‘It is…

Intoxicating History is the perfect title for drinks expert Henry Jeffreys and food critic Tom Parker Bowles’s new podcast. Its…

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We were discussing civilisation, as one does, and its relationship with cuisine. Pasta in Italy, paella in Spain, the roast…

The discourse around ‘flexible working’ has degenerated into a narrow debate over whether people come into the office on three…

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‘My heart will melt in your mouth,’ said my husband gallantly, unwrapping some leeks from a copy of the Sun…

I wish I’d been at the teams event held last week by the World Bridge Tour in Reykjavik. The sights,…

When I first heard that Angela Rayner had been tasked with creating an advisory council that will draw up an…

The pilot of the Black Hawk told me I could recline the seat if I wasn’t comfortable. ‘Oh, great!’ I…

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Isn’t it awful that the older you get, the more you know yourself? It’s supposed to be a good thing,…