An eminently written biography of the last Liberal prime minister, Damian Collins has produced an insightful and balanced ...

In August last year, a library was burned down in Liverpool. Just days earlier, three children had been murdered in a ...

One of the most passionate and saddest, yet hardly known great historical love affairs was that between an English classical ...

Faber has signed a ’timely, riveting’ book on the dramatic century since the Anglo-Irish Treaty and Partition from the ...

I made mention of a gathering in Colombo to remember Kumar David, who passed away last October, as Comrade, Professor and ...

Defamation actions being taken in the High Court in Dublin by Barry George, the Englishman whose conviction for the murder of BBC presenter Jill Dando was overturned, centre on comments made by her ...

Accidentally sharing attack plans with a journalist in a group chat is bad. Causing a rising superpower to declare war on you ...

Britain's Swinging 60s gave birth to a deluge of bands lost to the mists of time – but today their releases are worth a small ...

As the nation marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day next month, Churchill's descendants will take part in a service alongside ...

Like the seasons, political parties come and go. In 1847, Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress as a Whig. By 1854 that ...

1978 — Denver’s David Thompson, battling San Antonio’s George Gervin for the NBA season scoring title ... passes Jean Béliveau as all time playoff scoring champ. 1989 — Britain’s Nick Faldo makes a 25 ...

He has spent his years putting his life on the line for the political idol of our generation, Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga. I don’t want to imagine the number of times he has stared at death coming so ...