Obituaries

Leo Varadkar’s velvet rage As a politician, the ...

Boris Becker on life in jail When Boris ...

Michael Bentley recalls Maurice Cowling, the Conservative commentator and historian whose books on a variety of topics influenced thought on the right of the party

When I was a child, we had a tortoise called Winnie who had belonged to my father when he was a boy in the 1950s. He called his pet Winston after Churchill, but this name had to be changed when he dis

Britain needed some cheering up after the Second World War, and that led to a renaissance of cartoon illustrators. As a result, such artistic talents as Carl Giles, JAK, Ronald Searle and Russell Broc

Beveridge is alive and living in modern Britain. Not the man, but the social problems he identified, known as his five giants: idleness, ignorance, disease, squalor and want. It was Sir William Beveri