Zoe Strimpel

James Joyce called Guinness ‘the wine of Ireland'. Now it feels a bit more like the Coca-Cola of alcohol – as much brash branding as beer.

Elif Shafak is a novelist, political scientist and essayist. She has published 21 books – 13 of which are novels – and her books have been translated into 58 languages. Her most recent novel There Are Rivers in the Sky , is out now.

After days of speculation online, the alleged Chinese spy has been named as Yang Tegbo. This latest example of Chinese espionage has opened up a number of debates in Westminster, firstly around Labour’s push to ‘reset’ its relationship with China, as well as the conversation around the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme – a number of

Springfield Ohio became a talking point in this year’s Presidential election after Donald Trump referred to Haitian migrants ‘eating the cats and dogs’. Steven Edginton, GB News US Correspondent has been to Springfield Ohio to speak to some of the migrants there, investigate some reports that migrants are fleeing America in fear of a Trump

My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Chris Ware — author of Jimmy Corrigan, Building Stories and Rusty Brown, and a man widely regarded as one of the greatest living cartoonists. Chris’s new book, The Acme Novelty Datebook Volume Three, opens his sketchbooks for public consumption: a potentially painful move for an artist as self-conscious and perfectionist as Ware. He

(Getty) James Joyce called Guinness “the wine of the country.” Now it feels a bit more like the Coca-Cola of alcohol — as much brash branding as beer.

Being a woman walking on the street at night, especially on your own, is still scary.

The Bank of England have voted to hold UK interest rates at 4.75%. The Spectator's economics editor Kate Andrews joins Katy Balls and Freddy Gray to discuss the decision and what this means for the UK economy.

There is a tendency in France to go too far in protest. But sometimes the French get their rage just right and turn it into a moment of institutional and cultural improvement.

One thing we can exonerate Columbus for in his ruthless quest, it seems, is the conveyance of a tragically horrible disease