“There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face,” says Duncan, justifying his deluded trust in the treacherous thane of Cawdor. Yet the face of the newly made thane, Macbeth, “is as a book ...

In the run-up to every election in my Middle England market town, a light drizzle of campaign posters appears in windows. Mostly Labour, or “the Red Team”, as my youngest daughter calls them.

Here we go again. Back to “Yesterday”. Back to “The Times They Are A-Changin’”. Except: today looks very much like yesterday and those times ain’t a-changed one bit. The pop charts are still dominated ...

There is a new permanent secretary in Whitehall, and his name is David Dinsmore. No reason why you should have heard of him: he’s been toiling away on behalf of Rupert Murdoch for nearly 22 years and ...

In Dublin—where Spanish students, British stag dos and American genealogists look for a good time—a statue just off the main thoroughfare has developed a groping problem. Next month, a protection ...

Ahead of the recent Uxbridge and South Ruislip byelection to replace Boris Johnson as MP (who’d stepped down in disgrace after being found guilty of misleading parliament), 25,000 leaflets were posted ...