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Brexit has seen a number of parliamentary firsts, including the passage of the EU Withdrawal Act — a new law to force the Government to ask for an extension to the Article

Some years ago I wrote a novel called A Very British Coup, which was later made into a successful television series. It presupposed the election of a left-wing Prime Minister, Harry Perkins,

Never apologise, never explain. I’ll make an exception here. If Zareer Masani wants to apologise to the readers of “this offensive rag” for daring to read work he disapproves of, then go

Debates in economics, like old soldiers, never die. They only fade away, until time and fashion make them topical again. But one 20th-century debate seemed to have been killed off by both

Juries seem increasingly willing to accept “rough sex” as a defence against murder. Does “BDSM” allow abusers to hide in plain sight?

Women shouldn’t be pressurised into breastfeeding — it’s sexist and illiberal to claim that anyone who bottle-feeds is a bad mother

Questions about whether sophisticated machines could acquire consciousness and whether our species will eventually engineer our own superior replacement have consumed science fiction for a century. With the entry of the shorthand

Adam Dant's detailed drawings poke fun at cosmopolitan life

We enter the Bagh by the same narrow entrance used a century ago. We’re surrounded by cheerful families out for a picnic. They pose for the usual selfies with a large, red

While India remains, formally at least, a secular republic, the last few years have seen that ideal become increasingly far from reality