Johnson’s statement on Afghanistan was, as ever, a masterpiece of bare adequacy

Lock, who has died at the age of 58, was a popular figure on the UK comedy circuit — not bad for someone who described himself as “a miserable, authoritarian guy”

Donors pay twice: with their money and by having their reputations tarnished

Women’s rights are far more precarious than we have been led to believe

America’s republican prejudices stopped them from restoring a unifying king

How Britain’s armed forces adapted to new challenges following the end of the Cold War

Expelled from the Labour party, Loach can once again present himself as a rebel

For feminism to be effective, women and girls need to demand our rights and not rely on men to hand them over

Nudge taught a generation of experts how to manipulate the public, free from scrutiny

Beware of pointing the finger, even at the devil