If you want a bigger slice of cake, the best thing to do is bake a bigger cake, then everyone gets a bigger slice.

Critics see Rachel Reeves as betraying her election manifesto tax promises; but she may well be trying ‘The Lady’s ...

Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty has been turned into a stage show directed by Michael Grandage. We’re in ...

A year has passed since Kemi Badenoch took charge of the Conservative Party – a party then at the nadir of its fortunes.

A hundred years ago this coming Monday, Margaret Roberts was born above her father’s grocer’s shop in Grantham. Fifty years later, early in 1975, Mrs Margaret Thatcher – as she had by then become – ...

Alan Hollinghurst's 2004 novel The Line of Beauty finds a distinct beauty all its own in this long-awaited Almeida Theatre premiere, the play's linearity a decided jolt after the more jagged new ...

Our community agreed that, while no one likes paying higher taxes, honesty, fairness, and careful planning are crucial if ...

Margaret Thatcher would have "commended" Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch for "taking her time and thinking carefully" about ...

​As we report on page 12, Sir John Major has accused the Conservatives of a “loss of pragmatism, tolerance, nuance” and of ...

On Indira Gandhi’s death anniversary, extracts from her physician’s book that offer a glimpse of the persona behind the prime ...

In 1988, when the British government declared that the voices of Sinn Féin or I.R.A. leaders were not to be heard, ...

In June 1984 Margaret Thatcher welcomed South Africa's P. W. Botha to Chequers. It was the first time a British Prime ...