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The Trump administration is filled with people who are continually contradicted and undermined in public by their capricious boss, and to save face they claim it’s a cunning plan in the same way my ...

The preamble on last week’s chart quiz was about William Playfair, inventor of time-series graphs and irrepressible blaggard. It’s a pity that both modern biographies of Playf ...

Commercial insurance prices likely to remain high because of natural disasters and geopolitical risk, says marketplace ...

Translated by Olena Jennings and Oksana Rosenblum, Chekh’s portrait of Ukraine in the 1990s is unflinching. It is a place of alcoholism, violence and poverty. Yet Rock, Paper, Grenade is not without ...

Between the ages of 11 and 16, I wore a tie every school day. The thick, shiny bottle-green and gold-striped style was the bane of my teenage existence: a stuffy symbol of repression and tool for ...

Siri Sachs will become a non-executive of Wallenberg Investments, a new body designed to manage the multiple holdings, while Tessa Pilkington will join the board of Nineteen Private Capital, an ...

The concerto seemed in part designed for the intense energy that leaps off the French violinist’s strings. He played almost nonstop through the three linked movements and seemed to grow more forceful ...

Within days of her confirmation by the US Senate as Donald Trump’s new education secretary, Linda McMahon was promising to dissolve her own department.

Private infrastructure investors are poised to acquire NHS landlord Assura in a £1.6bn deal, marking the latest potential exit of a London-listed group from the UK market.

That’s not an aim that can be met by increasing defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP and having a vague plan to get to 3 per cent at some point in the future. (Yes, output targets are stupid in a ...

Zelenskyy in bid to persuade Trump he wants an end to war with Russia after freeze on military and intelligence aid ...