Born in Shropshire and now based in north London, Lee, 56, doesn’t make life easy for admirers of his work. His shows over the last decade often see him portraying his fans as pretentious, smug bores.

This week the formal text is the apology provided by News Group Newspapers (NGN) to Prince Harry (under his title of Duke of Sussex) and Labour peer Tom Watson. This apology marked the sudden end of ...

He added: “Now, I get that those with a terminal illness may have a prognosis that stretches out years and one of the decisions they might take is that moving to Scotland is something they want to do ...

For everyone else, the party that has been in government for the last 13 years has to take a large share of the blame. It’s true that governments all over the world and on every part of the political ...

When should you ban a far-right party? A motion to consider a ban of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), signed by 113 members of parliament, has been submitted to Bundestag. It’s a sign of how ...

The first point Sumption makes is that we don’t need the Convention: “many of the rights which the Convention proclaims were part of British law long before the Convention was conceived”, he says—and ...

But that’s how it is. When Musk decided to splash out $44bn to buy what was then called Twitter, he took ultimate responsibility for the speech of 350m-odd users of the platform. And Twitter—now ...

In economics, our thinkers look beyond money and markets to address some of the biggest global trends and transformations. Among them are scholars whose work helps us understand inflation after the ...

Western officials have been keen to emphasise that such a war may not transpire. Many suggest the risk of nuclear escalation has eased since the disastrous opening months of the invasion. In October, ...

The legislation thereby expressly envisages what is sometimes called a border poll, and that unless and until there is such a poll Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom. A referendum in ...

It is 10 years since the big phone-hacking trial ended at the Old Bailey. Ex- News of the World editor Andy Coulson went to prison; ex-News International chief Rebekah Brooks walked free. It was the ...

However, in the past 60 years, the monarchy has gradually plundered the blue commons—the seabed around the British Isles—transforming it into nothing less than a rentier capitalist empire. That empire ...