Former Supreme Court heavyweights Lady Hale and Lord Sumption may not agree on everything, but they were singing in harmony to the House of Lords Constitution Committee this week. Lord Sumption ...

Working in Japan as a foreign correspondent, as I did three decades ago for The Economist and as David Pilling did brilliantly for the Financial Times from 2002 to 2008, can be a frustrating business.

A former Supreme Court justice tells Nick Spencer that the roots of the problem lie deep in culture, history and psychology I speak to Jonathan Sumption in the kind of the room I would like to be ...

The reigns of the three Yorkist kings of England, from 1461 to 1485, are the darkest in the country’s history. It was a time of economic recession, widespread anarchy, gang violence, civil war and ...

And all that in a country that remains deeply Catholic. Duterte is the subject of Jonathan Miller’s new biography. A television reporter in Southeast Asia, Miller himself has been on the receiving end ...

Frances Villiers, Lady Purbeck, was exactly the kind of woman who worried Charles I. Despite her credentials – aristocratic birth, inherited wealth, an excellent marriage to one of his favoured ...

Jacqueline Rose is a formidable scholar who has applied her deep practical understanding of psychoanalysis to explorations of English literature, and she now turns that understanding on Zionism. She ...

In 2011 Emmanuel Macron, no stranger to statements of the obvious, wrote in Esprit: ‘Everything ought not to be expected of one man. The 2012 presidential election will no more deliver us a demiurge, ...

During the Golden State Warriors' blowout win over the San Antonio Spurs, forward Jonathan Kuminga went down with an injury and did not return. His initial diagnosis was right ankle soreness ...

Jonathan Israel’s latest book claims to be ‘an overview of the revolutionary process in the Western and colonial worlds down to the 1850s viewed from the particular perspective of the American ...

Paul O’Rourke, the narrator of Joshua Ferris’s third novel, is a ‘dentist and board-certified prosthodontist’. Each hour spent peering into mouths can be as painful for him as it is for those in his ...

Jonathan Carr, in The Wagner Clan, understands both the political and the social currents of Germany as well as its music. His book is well written, entertaining and well informed. However, I am not ...