This year, according to official projections released at the end of April, there will be more deaths than births in the UK. While this has occasionally happened before, including during the ...

There are 40 days between Easter Day and Ascension, the day that the Risen Christ was taken up into heaven. Between Ascension Day and Pentecost, another 10: “Pentecost” means “the fiftieth”. In those ...

The elections on 7th May look set to be the most significant of this Westminster parliament. They will produce new governments for Scotland and Wales, and they will show whether Reform UK has started ...

There is a tendency to treat local government as if it were a dress rehearsal for national politics. Most coverage of the May local elections across England, before and after, will be a disguised ...

One feature of gangsterism is that it is less about breaking the law, and more about using—abusing, misusing—the law and legal system to benefit oneself and to harm others. That is why many of the ...

Michael Young embodies the promise of the Labour party but also the doubt that it can ever live up to its self-stated ideal. He will forever be the man who brought the 1945 general election manifesto ...

The court jesters—comedians with podcasts and Netflix specials—have become our kingmakers. What explains it?

Twelfth November was an unremarkable day in British politics. Another day when the topic of debate wasn’t one of voters’ main concerns—immigration or healthcare, say, or the budget, or the farmers—but ...

It is commonly acknowledged that while biological sex is genetically determined, gender is a social construct. A human being cannot—and should not—be reduced to their biology, or indeed their genitals ...

From Shakespeare’s sonnets and Donne’s songs (“Tell me where all past times are”) to Wordsworth and Eliot (“All time is unredeemable”), poets have gone in search of lost time. It was this theme—one of ...

In the days and weeks after the Brexit vote, headlines like “The Empire Strikes Back” became a theme of international commentary. For the New York Times, the vote to Leave marked “England’s Last Gasp ...

Its owners do, however, have one problem. “That overflow pipe,” said Dawn Farnworth, who established By the Wye with her husband, Steve, five years ago. “It never just trickles out, it gushes out.