There is “anticipation and excitement” in Dundonald as it prepares to host its first Twelfth in nearly 60 years, locals have ...

There is a scene in Ben Pimlott’s biography of Harold Wilson that I cannot shake at moments like this. Wilson was a wily intellect and an even wilier politician, able to dodge and weave to keep his ...

I cover higher education for The New York Times. My beat has been busy lately, so I’m usually looking for entertainment ...

The idea of a wealth tax has raised its head - yet again - as the government attempts to balance its books. Downing Street ...

Labour MPs will have to decide whether to support the government in a Second Reading debate. This would not normally be a ...

Thirty years later he did, as Thatcher’s secretary of state for employment. Tebbit’s 1982 Employment Act avenged the unions’ ...

Four of the new principals will be at elementary schools, and two will work at high schools, including the new Newark School ...

Jeff Lynne’s Electric Light Orchestra performs its final concerts in Birmingham and London’s Hyde Park, marking the end of an iconic musical era - Dr Steven McCabe pays tribute.

Harold Wilson managed to keep Britain out of Vietnam without undue, long-term damage. Contrast this with Tony Blair’s near-unconditional support for the US in Iraq.

It has not always been brutal. The Independent ’s David Lister recalls going to an Arsenal game which the then Labour PM Harold Wilson attended to watch his team, Huddersfield Town, play. The ...

The old saying of the great Liverpool manager Bill Shankly never goes out of date: “Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don’t like that attitude. It’s more serious than that.” ...