For his third novel, Douglas Stuart moves north from the Glasgow tenements of Shuggie Bain and Young Mung o to the island of ...

They were called after generals, we were told, and of the four, Ralegh’s name is the best known. But why? I take a short ...

A secretive sub-section of the Foreign Office, it was in the business of fakes: leaflets, pamphlets and any printed matter ...

Meanwhile, his chum George Lucas, whose Star Wars and Indiana Jones series would pretty much wreck the idea of cinema as the ...

At 6.58 p.m. on 30 April 2024, Siri Hustvedt’s husband of 43 years, the novelist Paul Auster, died of cancer in the library ...

Inspiring, educational, moving, sometimes distressing, this is a riveting visual history of man’s best friend. Thomas Laqueur ...

Removed from banknotes, his statue sprayed with graffiti, blamed for Gaza, the Bengal famine, the deaths of millions, ...

Set in present-day Derry, Seamas O’Reilly’s Prestige Drama centres on the filming of a television series set in the ...

Just about the only person who seemed to be enjoying it at all was, bizarrely, Starmer Other traditions were maintained as ...

Like the rest of the King’s Speech, Keir Starmer’s address on the government’s legislative agenda had been prepared long ...

At any other time the GDP figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) this morning would have ...

Talk about good timing. Angela Rayner has this morning announced that HMRC has finally concluded its long-running probe into ...