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Drawing a Line Under the Troubles “Why am I still being investigated after all these years? I feel betrayed. The IRA gets an amnesty and I could be gaoled for life.” Those are the words of a former member of the Parachute Regiment who faces prosecution for events arising out of 'Bloody Sunday'...

BREXIT - Boris Johnson: "This deal is a national humiliation that makes a mockery of Brexit"

Last week saw the whole Rooney clan return to England for Wayne's last ever England game against the USA. Inside the Rooney's new life in America as Coleen opens family album

My voters all agree that I’m a very stable genius, Well-balanced, even-tempered, with a truly huge IQ, And though my lying enemies pretend I’m teenie weenious, I’ve testimonials that prove my pecker’s massive too. Believe me, I’m the brainiest of presidential giants; I’m twice as smart as...

For this week’s challenge you were invited to submit poems by Donald Trump. Why not throw your hat in the ring?

By the door of Mar-a-Lago, By his busty model daughter, With the sun to keep his wig warm, With the bien pensants all moaning, MagaWatha bloviated ‘All you fake news press keep spinning, Which is why I’m bigly winning, And now heading for the border Northward bound in all disorder Comes a swarm...

"I think Europe needs to get a handle on migration because that is what lit the flame,” Clinton said, speaking as part of a series of interviews with senior centrist political figures about the rise of populists, particularly on the right, in Europe and the Americas." Hillary Clinton: Europe...

The directors had decided to take control of this, the notice says, and states in bold type that “from Monday NO WAITERS will ever be allowed to take any payments from guests, there will be a password on the credit card machine and the managers will take all payments, without exception.”...

In the meantime, there is an opportunity to do things differently, to exploit the policy space that Brexit affords and tackle the structural problems that have plagued the economy for decades. The right has its plan: more liberalisation. It is time for the left to come up with its own vision...

The man and the incident would feel perfectly at home in Jonathan Coe’s 12th novel, Middle England, which examines the country over an eight-year period from 2010. It dissects the events that led the UK – or, rather, parts of England and Wales – to vote to leave the EU, the arguments that...

The man upon whom the hopes of young men and women in Britain rest enjoys taking pictures of drain covers and making jam. He wears baggy blazers and, when necessary, smuggles English cheese into his Mexican vacation lodgings. In other words, he leads the averagely eccentric lifestyle of your...

Maybe Trump's people should have visited Grimsby? Lincolnshire town tops list that punishes locations which have bookmakers and fast food outlets. Grimsby named unhealthiest high street in UK by RSPH study