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However deplorable one might find his self-declared socialism or dining habits, the Mayor of New York at least has an eye-cathing approach to opera....
Over 20 years ago, my life was painfully turned upside down as I began to navigate the ruthless and costly world of high-stakes divorce as depicted in...
Oh dear. It is polling day in Holborn and St Pancras and the Greens are staring down the face of defeat. Zack Polanski has put his leadership on the...
Simon Pegg has announced his diagnosis of ADHD, a condition now so well known that its abbreviation is normally left unexpanded.The BBC explains the...
Andy Burnham has been in Berlin today – his first bilateral diplomatic visit since entering Downing Street nearly three months ago. The Prime...
Whisper it, but the tide may be turning for one of Britain’s most unpopular, and unfortunate, men. The news that Thames Valley Police have admitted...
It is difficult to discern a unifying cultural theme in Trenčín, a midsized Slovakian town with an imposing castle, a charming Habsburg square and a...
‘Cases of Black people found hanged in the US South are a reminder of nation’s lynching history,’ read an ABC News headline last month. That...
I was honored to speak with Malcolm Guite, a poet and Anglican priest, about storytelling, attention and contemporary life. Guite’s latest project...
As the UK’s contribution to worldwide carbon emissions is less than 1 percent and doesn’t affect global temperatures a jot, the worthies’...
I suppose you could say that the Trump decade began on June 16, 2015, when Donald and Melania Trump descended the golden escalator in Trump Tower to...
Whisper it, but the tide may be turning for one of Britain’s most unpopular, and unfortunate, men. The news that Thames Valley Police have admitted...
The far right are on the march so I decided to take a look. I travelled to a market town in deepest England and joined a rally organised by Britain...
Everywhere I hear voices complaining about charges being imposed on those who wish to visit our great cathedrals. Everywhere, I reply to them: ‘Stop...
The old jokes are the best. When I arrived in Birmingham on Sunday evening for the Tory party conference, I immediately ran into a former Downing...
The London Underground used to be a happy place for authors. We would get into a carriage and see rows of people, studiously ignoring their neighbours...
As the UK’s contribution to worldwide carbon emissions is less than 1 per cent and doesn’t affect global temperatures a jot, the worthies’...
‘You’re probably just having a midlife crisis,’ says Scarlett Johansson to Bill Murray in Lost in Translation (2003). ‘Did you buy a Porsche...
On Tuesday morning, three people were arrested by Home Office immigration enforcement because of their suspected links to a criminal network which...
Once upon a time Democrats used to ask, “What’s the matter with Kansas?” Now it’s Republicans who may be tempted to adopt the...
Has a custody dispute involving the multi-millionaire heiress of a steak chain brought down the former head of Germany’s foreign intelligence...
Jeffrey Archer was my closest and dearest friend for 40 years. I first met him in 1986 when we were invited to be judges for a Royal Watercolor...
The London Underground used to be a happy place for authors. We would get into a carriage and see rows of people, studiously ignoring their neighbours...
I have dengue, a vile and potentially life-threatening virus given to me by an Aedes mosquito. For good reason, it used to be called breakbone fever....
Everyone knows the rules. London invented trains that run underground as well as the protocol that makes the system bearable. A London Tube passenger...
Once upon a time, the export crop of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket was whale oil. Nowadays it is money, harpooned by visiting campaigns from...
“Cases of Black people found hanged in the US South are a reminder of nation’s lynching history,” read an ABC News headline last month. That...
At some point there has to be an “emperor has no clothes” moment. Why, when we are in the middle of a boom in Artificial Intelligence, which is...
In May, Flávio Bolsonaro sat down with Donald Trump at the White House. He made a pledge: if he were elected president, Brazil would join the Shield...
On 21 September, pupils at the Lycée Saint-Exupéry in Créteil, south-east of Paris, staged a protest. They had a list of grievances. Classes were...
When Donald Trump announced with great bombast his plan for an American ‘Golden Dome’, he promised an all-encompassing shield that would...
Andy Burnham makes his first visit to Germany today in an attempt to further strengthen the country’s partnership with Britain. Last year, Keir...
Jeffrey Archer was my closest and dearest friend for 40 years. I first met him in 1986 when we were invited to be judges for a Royal Watercolour...
Barack Obama has launched a books podcast. Three years ago, this would have been an automatic cause for celebration in the book world. Now, however,...
Too much ballet these days is top-heavy with narrative that would be better served by the spoken word than it is by body language. And too few...
It’s as difficult to pin down exactly what Bill Callahan does as it is to explain what makes it so compelling. Now 60, Callahan has been releasing...
If the Royal Opera’s new Parsifal had ended after Act One, you’d be reading right now that it was one of the finest British Wagner productions of...
James Graham’s new play is a biography of John Maynard Keynes, known as ‘Mennid’ to his friends, which feels like a visit to a stately home....
At the time of writing I’m still in the dark as to whether Richard E. Grant’s Celebrity Traitors gambit – viz, admitting to his fellow players...
If you’re the sort of person for whom ‘SNIKT’ – the sound-effect that, by ancient tradition, accompanies the unsheathing of Wolverine’s...
It’s hard to know where to start – or finish – when explaining the formidable Lilian Hochhauser, due her centenary birthday card from the King...
The idea of TV soap operas was originally, at least in part, to reflect the nation as a whole. This was never really true – out of dramatic...
As the UK’s contribution to worldwide carbon emissions is less than 1 per cent and doesn’t affect global temperatures a jot, the worthies’...
Last month at the UN general assembly, Andy Burnham spoke movingly about Manchester’s statue of Abraham Lincoln, which stands outside the offices of...
On 21 September, pupils at the Lycée Saint-Exupéry in Créteil, south-east of Paris, staged a protest. They had a list of grievances. Classes were...
The London Underground used to be a happy place for authors. We would get into a carriage and see rows of people, studiously ignoring their neighbours...
The old jokes are the best. When I arrived in Birmingham on Sunday evening for the Tory party conference, I immediately ran into a former Downing...
Everywhere I hear voices complaining about charges being imposed on those who wish to visit our great cathedrals. Everywhere, I reply to them: ‘Stop...
Last month at the UN general assembly, Andy Burnham spoke movingly about Manchester’s statue of Abraham Lincoln, which stands outside the offices of...
Ever since I met Omi (one half of the fashion design duo Vin Omi) on a train, I have found myself, every six months, walking in their London Fashion...
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