If you long for that far-off time when novels were prepared to be hilariously funny, vulgar, caustic, wildly politically ...

One day Frederic Prokosch wrote a novel. He was 27 years old, living with his parents in New Haven, Connecticut, and ...

That’s really meta,’ said my husband, attempting to imitate a stoned hippie at a festival, but only achieving his ...

To paraphrase Charlie Munger: ‘show us the oversized government program and we will show you the scams and the ...

While the Labor government insists there is no link between its spending and rising inflation, economists disagree.

There was a Teutonic version of the ‘stiff-upper-lip’ Blitz spirit. But one big difference between our experience and the Germans’ was obvious. Berliners had two enemies: Allied armour and their own ...

I didn’t think so, but Helen Bain’s debut novel The Daffodil Days proved me wrong. I did not expect to be absorbed, on the first page, by a woman cleaning a house (Court Green in Devon), the home ...

How tiring it is for me without you. My soul is calm and I can rest only when you, my teacher, are seated next to me and I kiss your hands and lay my head on your blessed shoulders. Oh, how easy ...

Overnight on Wednesday, around 100 Basij soldiers were killed across Tehran by dozens to hundreds of suicide drones in ...

But for all the threats and intimidation, Iran’s cruel leaders have failed. Islam tried and failed to erase the Persian language, culture and history during the First Islamic Occupation fourteen ...

In the last 48 hours the government of Sir Keir Starmer has ended a link between the House of Lords and the Anglo-Saxon Witan by booting out the hereditary peers and beginning the process of removing ...

Donald Trump has been astonishingly successful dealing with tyrants, obstreperous foreign leaders, business rivals and political opponents. Perhaps his most difficult challenge will be in dealing with ...