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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

When Elon Musk tweeted his vision for an ‘America Party’, he ignited a firestorm of hope and scepticism. The idea was ...

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

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

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