Stephen Rand

Paula Rego (1935-2022) was one of the great post-war artists. Born in Portugal in 1935, she first moved to England in...

The call from Times Radio came out of the blue. Would I like to comment on a report that the Russian Foreign Ministry had banned me from entering Russia? What had I done to deserve the honour of being proscribed by Putin?

Thirty year gilt yields have climbed to levels last seen in 1998, hovering around 5.7 per cent at points this year. T...

In 1991 Cambridge University Press published a 225-page edition of The Great Gatsby (1925), expertly edited by Matthe...

When Russell Harty died in 1988, the BBC tried out several presenters to succeed him on Start the Week, including Kat...

PARIS: One by one, the prime ministers of France throw themselves on the funeral pyre built by Macron. The French pre...

The Bank of England left the base rate at 4 per cent last week. Cue the predictable headlines: inflation still sticky...

In last year's general election, Labour's candidate took 38% of the Caerphilly constituency vote and held the seat comfortably, as it has done for over a century. Yesterday, they limped home with just 11%. Eleven. That's not so much a bloody nose as a full dental reconstruction. Keir Starmer's experiment in “not being a Tory” politics hit the buffers some time ago, but the Caerphilly by-election demonstrates just how mangled the Labour Party chassis actually is.

“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.” The Durants, The [...]

The latest GDP figures from the Office for National Statistics were never going to dominate the headlines. They arrived just as England's World Cup campaign came to a dramatic end against Argentina, prompting yet another bout of national soul-searching and, remarkably, a minor diplomatic spat over the Falkland Islands that even required Downing Street to reaffirm Britain's unwavering commitment to the Islands and their people.