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

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

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

There is nobody who finds Gwyneth Paltrow, 52, more interesting than the woman who was a teenager in the 1990s. This was the ...

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

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 ...

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

Vice President Vance is currently receiving visitors at an 18th-century Georgian manor in the Cotswolds, an implausibly quaint patch of the English countryside. Petitioners so far have included ...

Every year the US State Department is required to produce a report on the human rights situation in every country in the world. The report card for the UK came out yesterday.

In December 1989, the United States invaded Panama. The objective was Manuel Noriega, a pineapple-faced general who’d risen to power in a coup d’etat and turned his ...

If you want to spend the sunny weather house-hunting in East London, you will be met with a stark message in one of the ...

It’s been forty years since I took my A-levels. Yet one particular dream still gatecrashes my sleep with irritating regularity: I’m in the exam hall, about to turn over the paper, but I’m ...