We see it when Jesus rides into Jerusalem on an ass, when he tells Peter to put away his sword, and when he dies on the cross ...

There is no time more miserable than 4pm on a gloomy Sunday afternoon in January. It is the devil’s own hour, a witching hour, when one’s life appears at its worst, and even the smallest stresses and ...

In April last year, a Bristol academic named Matthew Steggle published a paper that upturned everything conventionally assumed about William Shakespeare’s marriage. In a convincing analysis, Steggle ...

Donald Trump behaves increasingly like Shakespeare’s King Lear. “I will have such revenges on you both / That all the world shall—I will do such things— / What they are, yet I know not: but they shall ...

Strange as it may sound, a happy new year could be the very last thing Keir Starmer needs. The obvious ingredients of a “happy” 2026 for someone in Number 10 must surely rank as prosperity, peace and ...

A river meeting an impediment will divert so as to find a course of least resistance. Similarly, governments faced with legal obstacles will try to find another way of dealing with a perceived problem ...

Recently, I saw a new client who had an intellectual disability. Visiting his home, and seeing how he lived, gave me a stark reminder of all the ways in which vulnerable people can fall through the ...

You, the great-nephew of the late Herbert S Sinclair, stand to inherit a 45-room mansion. Except there’s a catch: you’ve got to find the hidden 46th room to come into your new property. What follows ...