'Most of us feel like starting the day by fishing for herring in an area designated for those with a European license. Eventually, you can't help but be sick of the EU telling you what to do'
When senior government ministers joust in public about migration or sovereignty – we are watching the dissection of big questions that deserved open discussion long ago
Exploring how Richard Wagner's Tristan & Isolde could potentially pave the way forward for ENO
A master of the tables, both snooker and turn.
After winning awards for their collaboration on Medea, Helen McCrory and director Carrie Cracknell resume their partnership in this revival of Terence Rattigan's 1952 masterpiece
Social mobility and the opportunity to further your educational prowess is on offer in this country – but only to one sex
Her brief but eventful parliamentary career shows why the whole business of whipping and party discipline seems increasingly irrelevant
People are getting their facts confused about Brexit, and this might be a nifty trick being played on us all. Just look at Boris and his bananas
Avigdor Lieberman's political promises of beheading, a fourth Gaza war and a third Lebanon war – there have in fact been five Israeli-Lebanese wars, but no matter – bode a very unhappy future for both Israel and its Arab neighbours
No one who cherishes the American ideal of 'government of the people, by the people, for the people' could fail to be horrified by what has become of the GOP
When my case was shared across the internet I couldn't help but find it depressing. Why should it have been my responsibility to speak out?
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The production now has PETA's approval
81 per cent of those over 55 will vote but a mere 52 per cent of young people say they will definitely turn up
Saudi Arabia is not a reliable partner for the promotion of peace but an albatross around our necks
At Eid, we all try to make our way to the mosque in Inverness to meet up with each other – and throughout Ramadan, we're happy to ask the (many) questions from our non-Muslim Scottish neighbours. They're certainly not shy about asking us about our faith and our practices
Each false atrocity bleeds into the body of evidence of other, real crimes, contaminating the truth for decades to come
Puccini declared it 'the best opera I've ever written', but history hasn't generally agreed. Grange Park's of La Fanciulla del West (originally directed by Stephen Medcalf, revived by Peter Relton) shows, despite its shortcomings, why he might have thought so.
The reaction from social media users was the best two-fingered response that Twitter has ever seen, as Jewish people reclaimed their identity from the trolls who hoped to use it against them
The former Prime Minister said that his successor as Labour leader was 'the guy with the placard', engaging in the politics of protest not the politics of power
A loan there. Assets here. A property purchase there. A cheeky £1.5m wafting on and off the books. The sort of bedevilling detail that BHS's 11,000 staff couldn't possibly hope to understand