The boy was regularly violent and sadistic to his siblings, we are told. His parents struggled to cope; nothing would help.

The German brothers’ fairy tales, in which moral laws are suspended and violence abounds, were no stranger than the ...

The singer who embodied the Swinging Sixties in her youth gained a power in her later years that suited her better.

There’s elements within the party: a few of them would quite happily see me either leave the party or get chucked out. I’m not leaving – this is my party – and I just want to continue my work within ...

Bill Gates became, at 31 years old, the youngest self-made billionaire in the world. Personal computers were rapidly becoming ...

This biopic of the 17-year-old Olympic gold medal-winning boxer Claressa Shields explores not just the victory, but the aftermath.

Los Angeles was primed to burn – by human error and human greed. By Richard Seymour Los Angeles is burning in the middle of winter. The fires are still not fully ...

John Swinney has reversed Nicola Sturgeon’s errors and is making the political weather. “We will cut our waiting lists.” With ...

The brutal 500-year history of English violence in Europe.

Rachel Reeves is not just facing an economic crisis – she is suffering from a failure of philosophical imagination.

Labour must recover its radical tradition and close Britain’s education privilege gap.

How the Sunshine State, once America’s dead end, became its new seat of power.