Sue Prideaux’s biography of the unruly French painter shows his story was more complicated than that of colonial seducer.

“S umer is icumem in,/Lhude sing cuccu ” – or “Summer is here,/Loudly sing, cuckoo” – are the opening lines of a much-anthologised medieval poem-song. Well, summer is just about done now and we’ve had ...

First, Emily Maitlis did for Prince Andrew when she bagged an interview with him for BBC Newsnight in 2019 in which he talked of PizzaExpress and his friend the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Equally, there was far more to Gustav Holst than his world-famous, frequently performed and endlessly recorded (there are ...

In his groundbreaking book, the star of New Journalism “put the reader into the eye sockets” of an LSD-fuelled 1960s ...

For while the cash rewards of news ownership may be diminishing, the political rewards are as dazzling as ever. The rutting ...

Inside the fake news crisis at the community paper.

Voters are losing their sense of what Keir Starmer’s Labour is for. He must use his conference speech to tell them.

Party conference season is in full swing and I am in sunny Brighton with the Liberal Democrats. As I walk along the beach I ...

The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being ...

Security starts with a country's borders - Labour can learn from Italy.

By Susanne Mundschenk ...