On the fourth Friday of January a silent and stealthy killer was creeping across the world. Passing from person to person and borne on ships and planes, the coronavirus was already leaving a trail of...

As I sit down to write this, I can hear Helen shouting from the bed, “Keep it short, Damian, it’s not about you.”I’ll try, but on a weekend when the papers, rig

A Muslim Conservative MP has accused a party whip of telling her she was fired from her ministerial job because of her faith

On the fourth Friday of January a silent and stealthy killer was creeping across the world. Passing from person to person and borne on ships and planes, the coronavirus was already leaving a trail of...

Three years ago George Clooney was in a motorbike crash that could have killed him. “I was waiting for my switch to turn off,” he says. He was in Sardinia, goin

Bimini Bon Boulash doesn’t like labels. “Non-binary is a new term, but the idea has been around for a long time,” the 28-year-old drag queen says

On the fourth Friday of January a silent and stealthy killer was creeping across the world. Passing from person to person and borne on ships and planes, the coronavirus was already leaving a trail of...

The UK is facing a constitutional crisis that will strain the Union as new polls reveal a majority of voters in Scotland and Northern Ireland want referendums

Several years after the battered body of a Kenyan woman was discovered in a septic tank near where she was last seen entering a hotel room with a British soldie

On the fourth Friday of January a silent and stealthy killer was creeping across the world. Passing from person to person and borne on ships and planes, the coronavirus was already leaving a trail of...

Two comments made by people in Downing Street as the “cash for curtains” affair intensified sum up the predicament in which Boris Johnson finds himself this wee

For many of us, one of the main things we have missed most over the past year is being able to see our friends. With good reason. Laughter, singing, dancing, sh

Shortly before Christmas, a photograph taken in the Downing Street garden emerged that was felt by many to epitomise a prevailing attitude at the heart of gover

On the fourth Friday of January a silent and stealthy killer was creeping across the world. Passing from person to person and borne on ships and planes, the coronavirus was already leaving a trail of...

Three years ago George Clooney was in a motorbike crash that could have killed him. “I was waiting for my switch to turn off,” he says. He was in Sardinia, goin

British surgeons using a machine that can restart hearts outside the body have transformed the lives of six children

Free lateral flow tests face the axe under plans for living with Covid which Boris Johnson will announce within weeks. More than £6 billion of public money has

Throughout my life I have been haunted by an agonising sense that I am failing the women I love. Over the years, in my romantic relationships, I would always do

On the fourth Friday of January a silent and stealthy killer was creeping across the world. Passing from person to person and borne on ships and planes, the coronavirus was already leaving a trail of...

Britain’s public show of unity over Ukraine belies years of abject failure to stand up the Russian president’s tyranny and aggression

Amat was only six months old when his father was jailed. A year later, he was big enough to recognise the way to the prison. “Papa, Papa,” he gurgled in excitement as we drove into the car park of...

The last time I saw Kate Garraway she had just returned in triumph from the I’m a Celebrity jungle. It was a cold, overcast January Sunday in suburban north Lon

Downing Street staff sprayed red wine on walls and were photographed sitting on each other’s laps at the No 10 Christmas party, it has been claimed.As Scotland

The government’s former chief scientific adviser is convening a rival panel of experts to offer advice on easing the lockdown. Tomorrow Sir David King will chair the first meeting of the group, which...

The Conservative Party is helping donors apply for public roles, with officials offering behind-the-scenes support and directing applicants to a secretive Number 10 unit

Matt Damon is baffled by how his children watch films — infuriated as they pause and chat their way through the art form he adores. “The way they watch is diffe

Nathalie MacDermott knew it was only a matter of time before she was struck down by coronavirus. She was a junior doctor in a London hospital when the virus cre

Priti Patel is at war with foreign secretary Dominic Raab after he allegedly blocked an initiative to allow victims of state repression and violence in Hong Kong to flee to the UK.Patel, the home...

During the recent unrest in Iran, as furious protesters risked their lives to criticise the regime, one name kept ringing out: Pahlavi. The dynasty of the last shah, who was deposed in 1979, has not...

The health secretary has begun a review into racial bias in medical equipment amid fears that thousands of ethnic-minority patients died of Covid-19 who should

It was an unfortunate scheduling clash. In November 2017 Christie Smythe had finally persuaded her husband to attend marriage counselling, but their opening ses

With Russia-UK relations at a nadir, an undercover investigation reveals the murky business dealings of the Queen’s ‘unofficial ambassador’ to a pariah state

On the day Boris Johnson was admitted to hospital with Covid-19, Vivien Morrison received a phone call from a doctor at East Surrey Hospital in Redhill. Stricke

Boris Johnson was at a Conservative Party fundraising dinner attended by at least one donor with links to Russia on the night Vladimir Putin launched his war in

Kwasi Kwarteng attended a private champagne reception hours after delivering his mini-budget where hedge fund managers who would gain from a crash in the pound

Senior officials “begged” Robert Jenrick to block a £1bn property deal backed by the Tory donor Richard Desmond, it emerged last night. But the housing secretary overruled the objections from civil...

Why do some people fall victim to cults and their bizarre belief systems while others can resist them? It’s a question that has interested me over the past year

How is Bill Gates holding up a year after splitting from his wife, Melinda?

The punk pioneer has quit hellraising to become a full-time carer for his wife, who has Alzheimer’s. Is he mellowing with age? Not a bit

The Conservative Party has been accused of abusing the honours system by systematically offering seats in the House of Lords to a select group of multimillionai

Boris Johnson is facing three new threats to his leadership with MPs discussing defections, fresh letters of no confidence being sent and mutinous cabinet minis

At least 20,000 passengers who could have been infected with a virulent strain of coronavirus were allowed to enter Britain while Boris Johnson delayed imposing

Nathan Ofori-Nino, Lukkya Mukwaya and Lorelle Roberts have recently finished a difficult final year at school. The 18-year-olds have summer jobs working for Tot

The Queen and other senior royals will be evacuated from London in the event of riots triggered by a no-deal Brexit, under secret plans being drawn up by Whitehall.Emergency proposals to rescue the...

“This is such a crunch moment,” said Annunziata Rees-Mogg. If her accent is perfectly polished porcelain, her words have a serrated edge. “I just feel this is a moment when I can’t stand by and let...

Scott Stuber laughs nervously when I ask if he is now the most important man in Hollywood. The head of film at the streaming giant Netflix, which has 209 milli

When Lorde was a teenager, David Bowie declared she was “the future of music”. Kanye West admired her so much, they ended up working together.It must be nice to

When Iryna and her four-year-old son David got on a train to their new home in the UK last month, they had no idea what it would look like.The pair had left the

Rishi Sunak makes his debut today in the Sunday Times Rich List, less than 36 hours after warning millions of people battling spiralling prices that they fac