As the war of words between Donald Trump and the EU continues to escalate, European countries have become increasingly ...

Brains are indeed fascinating. They are also still mysterious. And they can also be confusing. I was reminded of this during ...

An apocryphal quote from Uncle Joe Stalin was that artists in the Soviet Union should be the ‘engineers of human souls’.

The UK is in a dark place, but surely it couldn’t reach the point of civil war? Don’t be so sure. To discuss the possibility ...

Calle Londres 38 is the address in Santiago of one of the notorious detention centres where the government of the Chilean ...

Lady Pamela Berry (Pam to everyone, so that is what I too shall call her) did many things in her life. She was president of ...

Natasha Brown published an article taking the reader behind the scenes of two interviews that she had given to newspapers in ...

David Sheff first met Yoko Ono in 1980 when Playboy commissioned him, then aged 24, to interview her and John Lennon. She ...

Among the most striking things about Tony Benn was his friendship with Enoch Powell. They entered the House together in 1950 and became regular presenters on The Week in Westminster before falling ...

When Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’ was sold in 2017 for $450 million it caused a sensation. Dismissed as an anonymous ‘wreck’ just 12 years before, it had become the single most ...

When President Trump held up an easel in the White House Rose Garden illustrating each country’s ‘tariffs charged to the USA’ ...

Giorgia Meloni had it right. ‘There is nothing,’ the Italian prime minister said in 2022, ‘more right-wing than ecology. The… ...