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Q. My husband has been appointed to a post in Wales and we as a family have moved here for the foreseeable future. My daughter, who is 15, is very...
‘Sometimes, in the search for originality, the most obvious dishes are forgotten,’ says Elizabeth David, the doyenne of cookery, in her book...
‘Something I like to do with all my tables is ask what brings you here today?’ said the young waiter as he sat us down and began to talk. If I’d...
Q. My husband has been appointed to a post in Wales and we as a family have moved here for the foreseeable future. My daughter, who is 15, is very...
‘Something I like to do with all my tables is ask what brings you here today?’ said the young waiter as he sat us down and began to talk. If I’d...
Reform in No. 10? As the prospect gets more likely, the hand-wringing gets more theatrical. Should Reform somehow form the next government, we are...
It’s all-too easy to get bogged down in the never-ending list of reasons that owning a car in the UK is a hellish endeavour. Whether it’s the...
Only the most heartless fantasist would deny the life-saving role that therapy plays in helping people manage mental illness. Some people, of course,...
I’m one of those gobby vegans who will happily tell anyone why they should stop consuming animal products. But I can still admit what’s obviously...
There’s a case for arguing that this has been the worst year for Jews in Britain since Edward I ordered their expulsion in 1290. This sense of...
The world’s first fully robotic assault on an enemy position was, of course, captured on video by a drone hovering above.President Volodymyr...
However much Western leaders inveigh against Russian disinformation (which, yes, is a real issue), we should never pretend this is not a two-way...
The recent horrific attack in Golders Green has generated much anger and despair at this latest in a series of concerted, violent assaults currently...
Venezuela’s deposed president, Nicolás Maduro, never enjoyed the charisma or genuine popularity of his predecessor, “El Comandante” Hugo...
Vladimir Putin likes good statistics. At a government meeting on 15 April, even as he acknowledged that growth was slowing, he pointed proudly to...
However much Western leaders inveigh against Russian disinformation (which, yes, is a real issue), we should never pretend this is not a two-way...
Few questions in economic history generate more heat than the one that seems, on the surface, most straightforward: Did European rule in Asia and...
The recent horrific attack in Golders Green has generated much anger and despair at this latest in a series of concerted, violent assaults currently...
Four years ago, the unthinkable, for many Westminster residents, happened. Control of the council was won for the first time ever, and convincingly,...
Nigel Farage told Radio 4 this week that he had ‘made a mistake’ in trying to pursue pro-family policies, concluding that this is simply...
Last week, a 23-year-old amateur with no advanced mathematical training did something many mathematicians never manage in a lifetime: he solved a...
A Greek essayist c. 420 BC argued that Athens’s radical democracy, giving the vote to every adult male citizen, resulted in the poor having total...
When I was young and green and working as a gossip columnist, I learned much from the energy and enthusiasm of my colleague Lady Olga Maitland. Long...
Last week, a 23-year-old amateur with no advanced mathematical training did something many mathematicians never manage in a lifetime: he solved a...
Venezuela’s deposed president, Nicolás Maduro, never enjoyed the charisma or genuine popularity of his predecessor, ‘El Comandante’ Hugo...
Few questions in economic history generate more heat than the one that seems, on the surface, most straightforward: Did European rule in Asia and...
In P.G. Wodehouse’s Cocktail Time (1958) the characters are frequently ‘lapping up martinis like a vacuum cleaner’. Wodehouse was living...
The Make America Healthy Again movement has already accomplished more in its first year than many reformers dared to hope. Major food companies are...
Memorial Day is approaching, the traditional kickoff for the American barbecue season – or for grilling season, depending on where you are in the...
As the first Americans of the season got out of their car I scrunched up my face and groaned. ‘They’re all like that, remember?’ said the...
The Prime Minister has said he is considering a ban on some pro-Palestine marches, and wants ‘tougher action’ on certain phrases used on those...
A spectre is hanging over humanity: the spectre of superintelligent AI. While governments busy themselves with the mundane work of politics and...
It’s been the favourite gotcha question put forward by supporters of the SNP and the Scottish Greens at hustings events and TV debates throughout...
If anyone needs proof that jihadism is for losers, they need only look at the case of Abdullah Albadri. He was found guilty yesterday at the Old...
Nigel Farage told Radio 4 this week that he had ‘made a mistake’ in trying to pursue pro-family policies, concluding that this is simply...
Vladimir Putin likes good statistics. At a government meeting on 15 April, even as he acknowledged that growth was slowing, he pointed proudly to...
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It’s been the favourite gotcha question put forward by supporters of the SNP and the Scottish Greens at hustings events and TV debates throughout...
Keir Starmer has now been Prime Minister for one year and 300 days, which puts him 43rd in the list of Britain’s longest-serving prime ministers....
It’s hard not to feel sorry for Christian Turner, our new ambassador in Washington. He’s only been in post three months, yet he’s already had to...
Four years ago, the unthinkable, for many Westminster residents, happened. Control of the council was won for the first time ever, and convincingly,...
It’s been the favourite gotcha question put forward by supporters of the SNP and the Scottish Greens at hustings events and TV debates throughout...
When I became wheelchair-bound at the end of 2024, the biggest change I had to deal with was not being able to walk any more on my lovely long legs....
A spectre is hanging over humanity: the spectre of superintelligent AI. While governments busy themselves with the mundane work of politics and...
Why does everyone in Britain carry water bottles these days? On a dog walk in London a few days ago, a friend asked – with genuine concern –...
The Ukrainian unmanned ground vehicle rolled up to a small bunker hidden in a thicket in Kharkiv oblast then stopped. Another remote-controlled...
This session of parliament is due to end between 29 April and 6 May. Now the government is desperate for an Order in Council to kill it off by 9 a.m....
When it reaches the stage when everyone in the entire country is diagnosed as having mental health problems, will we have to accept that being...
The Supreme Court’s decision yesterday in Louisiana v. Callais et al has inevitably drawn strong criticism. In ruling that electoral districts...
In her seminal 1967 essay “Goodbye to All That,” Joan Didion writes of her former self, a 20-year-old naif arriving in New York City for the first...