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

Whatever happened to Baroness Charlotte Owen of Alderley Edge? At the age of 29, her elevation to the peerage in July 2023 by Boris Johnson was quite the mystery. Now she’s got stuck into the role in ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

It is nearly one year since 7th October and—words I have written before but still can’t quite believe—the Gaza war is still happening and hostages are still being held in the Strip. The grim data ...

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 ...

The sign on the lectern in Downing Street’s rose garden declared the prime minister’s speech would be about “Fixing the foundations”, but it did so in the manner of a demolition notice—with sans serif ...

We have had enough. Enough of our neighbours not being able to earn a decent wage in our no-growth economy. Enough of today’s young adults being stuck at home with Mum and Dad because they can’t ...

If you’ve ever walked a city street so late at night that it’s very early in the morning, you may have been greeted by a strange and unbidden thought. In the eerie stillness, it can feel for a moment ...