Comedians like Ricky Gervais and Jimmy Carr present themselves as edgy free speech warriors—but they’re actually very mainstream, says Lee ...

“The magnitude of what happened that day cannot be dismissed.” From an undisclosed location, opposition leader María Corina Machado is telling me and other international reporters about the Venezuelan ...

Being away, staying in hotel rooms or, nowadays, Airbnbs, is part of the freelance musician’s life. In terms of distraction, it’s a lot easier than it used to be—though that can, of course, be a ...

Enough for the moment about Baroness Charlotte Owen, made a peer by Boris Johnson when she was just 29 years old. She is most definitely one to watch, especially, as revealed last week, she is now ...

At a time when reputation in business has never been more important, eyebrows are bound to be raised when any boss of a public company is willing to have their name linked to Boris Johnson. But that ...

In the spring of 1961, Gerhard Richter, a young East German artist noted mainly for his portraits and socialist wall paintings, slipped through the last chink in the Iron Curtain—West Berlin—and fled ...

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Who are the “real” British? Those torching hotels housing asylum seekers, attacking mosques and chanting hateful slogans, or those who flooded the streets after the riots this summer to reject racism ...

Within walking distance of Liverpool’s conference centre, where Labour will gather shortly to celebrate its landslide victory, are 16,000 reasons why the party should be nervous about the next ...

This week, I finished listening to the Tortoise podcast series about the sexual assault allegations against Neil Gaiman. Gaiman is a very famous, very wealthy writer who has been accused by five women ...

“Some, perhaps many, occupants of Grenfell Tower regarded the TMO as an uncaring and bullying overlord, which belittled and marginalised them, regarded them as a nuisance or worse, and simply failed ...