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

I have accidentally taken up ballroom dancing. How did this happen, you ask? Well, seven years ago, I took a few classes as I whiled away the week-long crossing from Southampton to New York on the ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Aristotle’s distinction between the rule of laws and the rule of men has left a long legacy. Laws, said the great sage, are considered, rational rules applying generally. The rule of a man, by ...

Why a scandal at the Jewish Chronicle also goes to the top of the BBC ...

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 ...

On the strength of hundreds of hours of Grenfell testimony, the BBC’s Kate Lamble distils a tale of “warnings unheeded”, “deregulation drives”, cost-cutting procurement and “a construction industry… ...

Jonathan Sumption is a former Supreme Court justice. He gave the 2019 BBC Reith Lectures ...

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 ...