In Karla’s Choice the late spy novelist’s son Nick Harkaway has revived George Smiley – but he cannot match the story of his ...

Her team’s assuredness is understandable to an extent. She was the bookies’ favourite for the first half of the year, ...

But this act alone is unlikely to change the post-7 October landscape – either the diplomatic deadlock or the blasted skyline ...

We should remember that austerity was a serial killer of European governments in the last decade. Nicolas Sarkozy and ...

For all Alex Salmond’s many flaws, he understood the business world. Liked it, even. Liked its leaders and was relaxed in ...

The bassist on becoming a Bad Seed, reconvening with old friends, and how life on the road has changed.

In what appears to be a “chance” victory, Israel has killed its ultimate target: Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas.

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Amid the deluge of true crime content in recent years is the occasional story about the one who escaped. The one who found themselves in the killer’s crosshairs and escaped. The ones who jumped out of ...

This production imagines Oedipus (Mark Strong) as a contemporary politician – and achieves a level of catharsis rare for any ...

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Her novels – set in a dreamlike, aristocratic approximation of the Cotswolds – are so absurd they are rarely analysed. Can ...