Mocked by the chattering classes, forgotten by Westminster…why don’t we care about the white working class?
Looking for a punchy ‘story in a sentence’, TV documentary maker Nicola Wilding was skim-reading an article about an alcoholic father of three who’d been arrested for trying to carjack a police officer at gunpoint in Dover. The officer had got out of his car, gun pointing at him, but something about the attacker made him sniff weakness, More...
Tintagel? It was a trading hub, not the seat of King Arthur
Tyrants and Traders by Ken Dark (Bloomsbury Academic £20, 232pp) By CHRISTOPHER HART Published: 05:00 EDT, 31 July 2026 | Updated: 06:52 EDT, 31 July 2026 More...
Top psychologist explains why couples fight over the smallest things – and what can really be done about it
Do you fight with your partner? About the bins perhaps, or the washing up? Whatever the superficial graze that manifests in a row, it starts, says psychologist Kim Polinder, in much deeper wounds. We fight, More...
Why we SHOULD be sweating the small stuff
The Small Stuff Ian Bogost (Allen Lane £20, 240pp) By MARCUS BERKMANN Published: 07:50 EDT, 28 July 2026 | Updated: 07:53 EDT, 28 July 2026 We have More...
Magnificent moustachioed Brits who fought the Romans (and each other) to the death
August, 55BC, off the Kent coast, near Deal. And the Romans have arrived… ‘How, wearing heavy legionary armour, do you cross the deck of a beached transport ship? The surf makes the ship roll awkwardly. More...
How to learn to love your tapeworm
Hidden Creatures Dino Martins (William Collins £22, 336pp) By KATHRYN HUGHES Published: 05:00 EDT, 26 July 2026 | Updated: 05:04 EDT, 26 July 2026 Of More...
Colson Whitehead returns in this week’s literary fiction: Ash by Louise Wallace, Family Friends by Chloe Ashby, Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead
By CLAIRE ALLFREE Published: 05:01 EDT, 24 July 2026 | Updated: 05:41 EDT, 24 July 2026 Ash is available now Ash by Louise Wallace (Hutchinson More...
The Mad Men of Science: One kept a cow in his flat, another climbed trees to avoid colleagues, a third’s party trick was swallowing knives… but these are the men who understand the universe best
We are dealing, in this modestly titled book, not with inventors, engineers or technicians, all of whom make useful contributions to our way of life (by coming up with washing machines, say, or tin openers), More...
How Mark Antony actually saved Rome… (he married Cleopatra for her money)
Regina by Kate Williams (W&N £25, 416pp) is available now from the Mail Bookshop By YSENDA MAXTONE GRAHAM Published: 04:25 EDT, 19 July 2026 | Updated: 05:21 EDT, 20 July 2026 More...
The key to Trump’s election win? 57,000 exclamation marks
On The Mark by Florence Hazrat (Profile £22, 320pp) is available now from the Mail Bookshop By JAMES CAREY-DOUGLAS Published: 04:45 EDT, 19 July 2026 | Updated: 04:45 EDT, 19 July 2026 More...