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I’m afraid I have what might be shocking news – Ken Clarke is quite right-wing. He may hold heterodox views on Europe (a conviction that cost him the party leadership on multiple occasions), but Clarke’s reputation as a Tory ‘wet’ belies both his record and his admiration for Margaret Thatcher.

The Tower of London’s Crown Jewel exhibition, which reopened in May, is a turning point in the museum’s narrative. As British institutions have increasingly made moves to investigate their connections to slavery, there has been a gradual acceptance of the complicated nature of the nation’s history, which does not sit…

Ministers quietly rolled out changes to a carbon trading scheme which lets companies compensate for their greenhouse gas emissions

The prime minister said he is backing the North Sea oil and gas industry to ‘make Britain more energy independent’

UK mortgage approvals rise to eight-month high in June, while eurozone GDP rises after narrowly avoiding winter recession

THE Prime Minister has confirmed that hundreds of new North Sea oil and gas licences will be granted in the UK.

The BBC sitcom lives in a less complicated Britain – one that was still really into The Streets and chunky belts and WKD, and knew Laurence Fox as the guy from ‘Lewis’, writes Tom Nicholson. Can’t we just leave it be?

In 1740, a modest squadron of ships from Britain’s Royal Navy departed Portsmouth in pursuit of an immoderate treasure. Commodore George Anson, who led the flotilla, was tasked with sailing south and west across the Atlantic Ocean, rounding Cape Horn, and interfering in imperial Spain’s lucrative trans-Pacific trade. But even…

Ecowas bloc issues one-week ultimatum, warning it will take ‘all measures necessary” to restore order