Happy local elections day, one and all. As voters head to the polls across the country, the talk in Westminster is how bad the result is going to be for Rishi Sunak. His party is tipped to lose...

News just in: Scotland’s Crown Office has still not received a report from Police Scotland about the SNP’s former chief executive Peter Murrell — almost a fortnight after he was rearrested and...

Could you live off the land for a year without buying a single thing to eat? This was the challenge a retired journalist set himself on Radio 4 this week. Max Cotton lives on a five-acre smallholding...

News just in: Scotland’s Crown Office has still not received a report from Police Scotland about the SNP’s former chief executive Peter Murrell — almost a fortnight after he was rearrested and...

What kind of person tailgates on the motorway? It is usually a BMW, isn’t it? Or failing that an Audi or a pumped-up SUV.

For the past few weeks, protests have rocked college campuses across the United States over Israel’s war against Hamas. Last night, police raided Columbia University to remove students occupying one...

Back to Scotland, where it’s set to be another turbulent day. The SNP continues its slow-motion implosion while leadership frontrunners Kate Forbes and John Swinney ponder about standing for the top...

Kate Forbes has yet to throw her hat into the ring for the SNP leadership race, but already the campaign is underway to block her

Could Rishi Sunak be about to win the next general election? That suggestion, made at Prime Minister’s Questions, made some Tory MPs laugh

If you thought the last you’d hear of George Galloway’s Workers Party of Britain would be the Rochdale by-election, you were sadly mistaken. ‘Gorgeous George’s’ group is back in the limelight after...

It looks like the Rwanda removals policy is coming to the boil just in time for the very race for which it was bred.

Could Labour really lose London? A new poll out today shows that Sadiq Khan’s lead over Susan Hall is down to just ten points, ahead of the capital’s voters going to the polls tomorrow. The survey...

There's nothing retrograde about an expansion in the number of good schools. Catholic schools are, by and large, pretty good.

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Ariane Bankes tells the story of her mother, whose love affairs with Orwell, Camus, Ayer and others put her at the heart of the 20th century.

No-one seems to like tourists any more. This week Venice introduced its €5 entry charge – which merely buys you the right to go into the city and be ripped off by cafes and restaurants. On Tenerife,...