Do you speak English in Japan? Not very well, it turns out. Brands and companies seem to revel in their misuse of our language.

This weekend is the World Snooker Championship at Sheffield’s Crucible. But why is the darts, with Luke Littler, so much more popular?

Harry and Meghan are touting their new Netflix show about friendship and polo. But can it save them from an unhappy year?

Thursday’s local elections almost inevitably produced a cacophony of information. That presented the parties with plenty of opportunity to cherry pick results that appeared to present their perform...

The fall-out from the local elections continue. In the West Midlands, Labour pulled off a shock upset to unseat Andy Street by 1,500 votes. The Starmer army’s triumph there was all the more impress...

While Labour has gained councillors across England, and won bellwether councils such as Nuneaton and Bedworth and Milton Keynes, it has also lost some of its traditional Muslim support to George...

Andy Street was a political outsider when he was chosen as the Conservative party’s candidate for mayor of the new West Midlands Combined Authority in 2016. He was 53 and had enjoyed a successful...

The fall-out from the local elections continue. In the West Midlands, Labour pulled off a shock upset to unseat Andy Street by 1,500 votes. The Starmer army’s triumph there was all the more impress...

So, it didn’t take long for the recriminations to begin. After Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives were subject to a massive drubbing in this week’s council elections, and were hit with the loss of the West...

Any Conservative tempted to depose Rishi Sunak after the local election results should study the pantomime playing out in Holyrood. Humza Yousaf lasted 13 months in office – an improvement on the 49...

Earlier this week, Ireland’s newly installed Taoiseach, Simon Harris, made an outrageous proposal to deploy 100 policemen to control immigration along the border with Northern Ireland. Harris is...

Kadyrov and his cronies have committed many crimes to shore up their power, and have enjoyed the Kremlin's protection throughout.

It’s not a pleasant feeling to know there are colleagues in your workplace who think you should be summarily dismissed and marched out of the building, flanked by security. Yet I learned this week...

For over 20 years, Britain effectively gave up on building new nuclear power stations. But that’s changed now, Hinkley Point C in Somerset, is under construction and when completed will provide...

While the West obsesses about whether or not China’s supreme leader, Xi Jinping, is going to invade Taiwan, the Taiwanese seemingly have other concerns. Today the hot issue is statues. To be precise,...

Tory supporters went to bed last night believing that their man Andy Street would hold on handily in the West Midlands Metro Mayor contest, while also daring to dream that Susan Hall might just pull...

In one of the closest mayoral elections ever seen, Andy Street has been defeated as mayor of West Midlands by Labour’s Richard Parker in a knife-edge contest. The result was due at 3 p.m this...

In one of the closest mayoral elections ever seen, Andy Street has been defeated as mayor of West Midlands by Labour’s Richard Parker in a knife-edge contest. The result was due at 3 p.m this...

In one of the closest mayoral elections ever seen, Andy Street has been defeated as mayor of West Midlands by Labour’s Richard Parker in a knife-edge contest. The result was due at 3 p.m this...