While it may seem like people are hopelessly polarised in today’s political climate, there is at least one thing that almost ...

Slavery is one of the oldest and most persistent institutions of humankind. It was already well established four millennia ...

Nicola Sturgeon has all the usual things she wants to achieve in her memoir: rumours to scotch, a legacy to spell out, and so ...

Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir Frankly, finally published today, is already looking like the most ill-advised autobiography since ...

There is a fine tradition of campus novels that stretches from Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited (1945) and Kingsley Amis’s ...

At nine minutes past eight on the evening of Monday May 26, Merseyside Police did something that no other British police ...

Full of strokes and blows/ broken, pitifully wounded’, the man, naked, or almost so, stands full frontal, legs and arms ...

Language, it has been said, is the only true democracy – changed by the people that use it. But as with any democracy, there ...

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms’, Winston Churchill once ...

When I lived in south London, my Algerian barber used to tell me that he came from Souk Ahras, ‘the home town of Augustine’.

How long it seems since the then Home Secretary Sajid Javid declared a ‘major incident’ in the Channel on account of the ...

We all know that life is full of people who try to con us, often starting with a voice on the phone. ‘I’m speaking from the ...