A comedian who has appeared on a number of BBC shows has sparked outrage for posting a threat on social media to kill a female “Zionist” comedian. Dane Baptiste, 42, has apologised for posting the ...

Harvey Weinstein will be retried on rape charges after his 2020 conviction was overturned on appeal. The movie mogul, 72, appeared in a Manhattan courtroom in a wheelchair on Wednesday afternoon to be ...

Craig Fuller is a rural property buying agent, so when plans recently revealed that his country home could be surrounded on all sides by solar panels as part of proposed 2,000-acre solar park, he knew ...

People with anxiety and milder depression face losing entitlement to disability benefit payments as Rishi Sunak set out a “moral mission” to reform welfare. The prime minister said the recent rises in ...

Rishi Sunak’s hopes of significant interest rate cuts before the election suffered a blow on Wednesday after new figures showed inflation falling more slowly than expected. Ministers had been banking ...

Every constituency in Britain saw a rise in sickness benefit claims last year, with Conservative areas experiencing some of the biggest increases. Affluent southern areas have seen the numbers of ...

It took Ernest Hemingway just six words. Challenged to write the shortest and most moving story possible, the story goes, the novelist submitted this piece of genius 24 hours later: “For sale. Baby ...

Family members of the three British armed forces veterans killed in an Israeli airstrike on an aid convoy in Gaza have said their deaths in the “inhumane” attack should serve as a turning point in the ...

Challenge yourself with today’s puzzles. Are there two more soulful voices anywhere on the planet? At a time when technology plays tricks on listeners and makes very ordinary singers sound, well, ...

The pink apple blossom is out in the orchards of Sandford, north Somerset, where Martin Thatcher’s family have made cider for four generations. The birds are in full voice and roe deer have been seen.

At the glitzy London Hilton hotel on Park Lane four years ago the Newsnight team was toasting its success. They had just picked up four RTS Journalism Awards for the programme’s landmark interview ...

Drivers overwhelmingly prefer cars with physical buttons and switches over distracting touchscreen controls, a study has found. Almost 90 per cent of motorists said they would rather drive a car with ...