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For 50 years until her death this week, aged 88, Dame Jilly offered Britain fine social distinctions, finer bottoms and the chance to use words like “buttocks” in an otherwise bleak world. And Britain ...

Tariffs, higher costs and Chinese retaliation hit hard ...

Some 85% of those who voted for Kamala Harris blame the Republicans, against 4% who blame the Democrats—an 81-point gap.

O ctober 7th is not a moment of unity in Israel this year. The families of the remaining 48 hostages in Gaza accuse Binyamin ...

E very year since the 1950s, more people have arrived in America than have left. Every year, that is, until quite possibly ...

“There were others who planned such attacks in the past and are now sitting in prison,” says Dave Rich, head of policy at the ...

N OT LONG ago, important Europeans would wave away questions about America’s armed forces leaving the continent. The idea was ...

But perhaps this was because the academy’s announcement had committed the journalist’s faux pas of burying the lead: the ...

The party, which has dominated Japanese politics for 70 years, faces challenges from upstarts on the hard right, such as ...

Today the Tories are far from power and so the dead space has been padded out with empty stands bearing the party’s messages; ...

Unfortunately, “Shadow Ticket” is not Mr Pynchon at his best. Set in 1932, it follows Hicks McTaggart, a private eye employed ...