Matters have not improved since. A YouGov poll this week put Reform ahead of Labour for the first time – by 25 per cent to 24 ...

It is also a project of self-interest: an America that is seen as good is one that stands stronger against malign opponents ...

If you’re wary of spin-offs, as I have been ever since Aaron Spelling ripped a rib from the heaving breastbone of Dynasty and ...

The British surrealist Ithell Colquhoun combined magic and mythology to create art from buried folklore.

Up to 20,000 babies may have been affected by exposure to valproate since it was introduced. Some, like the government’s patient safety commissioner, Dr Henrietta Hughes, have branded this “a scandal ...

The past few days show that perhaps both can be true at the same time. Trump wants higher trade barriers with all countries ...

Now two polls have put Nigel Farage’s Reform party in the lead, ahead of both Labour and the Conservatives: a one point lead ...

Net zero and economic growth are not always compatible aspirations.

But the Brexit legacy is hardly stress-free for the Tories either. For a start, the polls show increasing levels of “Bregret” ...

This war has reached into every home, leaving no family untouched by its flames, no heart unscarred by its agonies.

Tales of council estates written off by Labour activists as “always on side” come to mind. In the 2014 Heywood and Middleton by-election, Labour clung on to the seat by only a few hundred votes. Ukip ...

The German brothers’ fairy tales, in which moral laws are suspended and violence abounds, were no stranger than the ...