John Smyth, who died in 2018 aged 77, was born in Canada to parents who were members of the cultish Plymouth Brethren. The ...

Earlyish in my journalistic career I was interviewed for a job by the late Robert Maxwell, now perhaps best known as the father of Ghislaine. For those too young to remember, he was an overbearing, ...

Is Donald Trump a singular political genius? Or a useful idiot steered by savvier acolytes? In the immediate aftermath of his 2016 victory, observers careered between portraying Trump as an ...

It is generally agreed that being the archbishop of Canterbury is an impossible job. In modern times, tenures can begin with ...

Every summer, we rent a cottage from a local landowner in the Glens of Angus, a peaceful, largely agricultural district in the foothills of the Grampians. The royal estate at Balmoral, 30 miles away ...

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Gaetz, Kennedy, Gabbard and Hesgeth. Trump’s appointments aren’t just absurd—they’re dangerous ...

This month we introduce a new Lives columnist, Kiran Sidhu, who writes about the rural Welsh village where she lives. Kiran celebrates the power of nature, as does actor and writer Sheila Hancock, who ...

Although TS Eliot was arguably the most influential literary critic of the 20th century, for decades, scholars worked without a collected edition of his critical prose, which was scattered through the ...