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What makes a politician an effective public speaker? We may not immediately know the answer, but we know it when we (don’t) see it. Monotone pitch, strangulated vowels or swivel-eyed certainty – these are the people telling us that difficult days lie ahead, or that only their party can deliver …

Retired history teachers everywhere must be quietly lamenting that Mussolini: Son of the Century wasn’t around when they were building their Twentieth Century Europe modules. Joe Wright’s Italian-language TV adaptation of

Antonio Scurati’s novel

The claim that Lucy Letby definitely poisoned babies with insulin has “no scientific justification whatsoever” and there is a “very strong level of reasonable doubt” about the convictions, according to the authors of a 100-page study on the case.

Prof Geoff Chase, one of the world’s foremost experts on the …

Tax campaigners have joined retailers in urging the UK government to close a tax loophole to prevent a “massive influx” of cheap goods from companies such as Shein and Temu flooding the market.

It comes after the

EU said it was joining the US in phasing out …

Late-night hosts spoke about the damage being caused by

Donald Trump

Seth Meyers

On Late Night,

Seth Meyers

The Bank of England is not in a position to declare “job done” in tackling inflation amid concerns over rising prices hitting households, Threadneedle Street’s chief economist,

Huw Pill

Speaking a day after the central bank

cut interest rates and slashed its …

My friend Michael Brennan, who has died aged 80, was a teacher and activist, and also tried to unravel the mathematical basis of Celtic interlace – the ornamental knot patterns found in Irish art.

As a youth Mike had assisted his father in his work as a monumental sculptor. He …

Sir Gino, the odds-on favourite for the Arkle Trophy at Cheltenham’s festival meeting next month, will miss his intended prep run in the Game Spirit Chase at Newbury on Saturday after sustaining “a small wound” during routine exercise, Nicky Henderson, the gelding’s trainer, said on Friday.

Sir Gino, who was …

Italy are the biggest favourites of the weekend to win their Six Nations match. And it is highly unlikely that sentence has been written before.

Admittedly, there is barely anything in it. At the time of writing, Italy are widely available at evens with a handicap of seven; for France …

Sudan’s brutal civil war appears to be approaching a decisive phase as the country’s military reported sweeping gains in the symbolic battle for the capital.

As a

ruinous conflict