Earlier this year, International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan sought arrest warrants for two Israeli and three Hamas leaders on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the ...

Some MPs, poor and vulnerable souls that they are, feel under pressure because posters for and against assisted dying have appeared at Westminster Tube station. Three MPs want to stop the debate and ...

Julia Loktev’s My Undesirable Friends begins with a doomy portent: “The world you are about to see no longer exists; none of us knew what was about to happen.” A parodic tease, no? Something designed ...

For skiers Canada may be known for its magnificent powder snows, stunning scenery and exciting downhill runs. But it is fast becoming infamous for an entirely different type of slippery slope: what ...

Earlyish in my journalistic career I was interviewed for a job by the late Robert Maxwell, now perhaps best known as the father of Ghislaine. For those too young to remember, he was an overbearing, ...

My mother, Prof Felicia Huppert, was an amazing person—a pioneering psychologist, transforming research into everything from dementia to wellbeing, an inspirational mentor, and a brilliant mum. But I ...

Will Friday’s debate be cancelled? Probably not, but stopping the debate is the aim of an amendment put down by a cross-party alliance in the last few hours. Ben Spencer, a Conservative MP, Munira ...

This month we introduce a new Lives columnist, Kiran Sidhu, who writes about the rural Welsh village where she lives. Kiran celebrates the power of nature, as does actor and writer Sheila Hancock, who ...

Every summer, we rent a cottage from a local landowner in the Glens of Angus, a peaceful, largely agricultural district in the foothills of the Grampians. The royal estate at Balmoral, 30 miles away ...