Inheritance

A marriage of inconvenience: The Bride Stone, by Sally Gardner, reviewed

26 July 2025 9:00 am

His capricious father’s will leaves a young English doctor needing to find a wife within two days and seven hours of his return home from revolutionary France

Millennials don’t want brown furniture

28 June 2025 9:00 am

For me, it was the sideboard that did it. Originally the centrepiece of my grandmother’s dining room, upon her death…

Scrapping inheritance tax is a terrible idea

5 October 2022 1:10 am

There is no hole deep enough that a Conservative minister cannot muster the spadework to excavate it to even greater…

High life

7 October 2017 9:00 am

The death of the richest woman on this planet, as the tabloids dubbed Liliane Bettencourt, brought back some vivid memories,…

My confession: I began dodging tax aged eight

16 April 2016 9:00 am

As someone who still entertains hope of becoming a member of Parliament one day, I’d better come clean about my…

Diary

20 June 2015 9:00 am

Off to prison to visit a writer friend, first jailed led some years ago for trying to find a hit…

Heritage

23 May 2015 9:00 am

Benidorm has applied for World Heritage status. To achieve this, says Unesco, a site must have ‘outstanding universal value’ in…