Simon Sebag Montefiore is one of Britain’s most popular historians, the author of over a dozen books, both fiction and nonfiction, on historical themes. Long known as an expert in the history of ...

The decision is now up to local Green Party members By Megan Kenyon Zack Polanski has confirmed he will put his name forward for selection as the Green Party candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras by ...

Did the Green Party top up its deputy leader’s wages with public money? Leeds City Council will review the allocation of £5,800 to Mothin Ali By Megan Kenyon The Green Party has been accused of using ...

The Tapestry forms a bande dessinée of the first great Anglo-French crisis By Michael Prodger There are many things the Bayeux Tapestry is held to be that, in fact, it is not. Most obvious of all is ...

We are handing billions every year in state pension payments to people who don’t need it By Will Dunn The National Lottery runs a game called “Set For Life” in which people can enter for a chance of ...

JD Vance knew what he was doing. The occasion was carefully chosen: a speech in the old steel factory in Middletown, Ohio, where his grandfather worked for nearly four decades as a welder. Vance had ...

Young people are lost in the chasm between aspiration and reality By Vicky Spratt When Charlie, 32, was growing up in a small town in Lincolnshire in the 1990s, she dreamed of success, of moving away, ...

The case has unleashed an avalanche of personal stories from struggling mothers and reckless conspiracies By Jill Filipovic Closing arguments began on Thursday 27 August in the trial of Lindsay Clancy ...

The deportations and offshoring that Nigel Farage advocates are becoming facts of European politics By Alexander Etkind As the world heats up, Nazi wrecks are rising from the depths. Record-low water ...

At the Clacton count, I came face to face with Nigel Farage’s challenger By Anoosh Chakelian First came the Loonies. As counting agents at long trestle tables unfurled each ballot paper like an ...

Simon Winder is an author and a publishing director of Penguin Press. His books include Germania, Danubia and Lotharingia (Picador). Also this week: rediscovering a lost diary, and trying to complete ...

The Reform leader didn’t turn up to his own by-election By Anoosh Chakelian Nigel Farage has won the Clacton by-election, in a contest boycotted by every other major party. But in the end, even he ...