There’s growing evidence that animals have a sense of humour. Should this change how we see them?

All over Britain, shopping centres are closing down. Can these retail paradises be replaced by new public spaces?

In 2014, Zora founded Lok Rang Noor Art, a gender fluid, all-queer Giddha troupe that has become a beacon of inclusivity and ...

It was four years after the storming of the Bastille that the new revolutionary government really established the framework ...

My Jesuit public school, which was called Beaumont, liked to tell impressionable parents that it was “the Catholic Eton”. I am oddly disappointed to learn from Mark Cleary’s new book that four other ...

Is there a narcissist in your life? It’s the question posed time and again across countless books, websites and social media posts. How to spot a narcissist, how to handle them, what they want – the ...

Labour’s feud over child benefits points to a deeper question: how to balance strategy with doing the right thing Labour has tied itself in knots over the two-child benefit cap. Credit: Alamy ...

Stephen Fry is an actor, comedian, writer and presenter. He is also a patron of Humanists UK and a vocal advocate for mental health. Why is uncertainty an important intellectual value to you? I’m very ...