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Support for a no-deal Brexit is growing in the face of the EU's refusal to help salvage Theresa May's deal, according to a new poll. A survey by ComRes found that 44 per cent of the public now believe the UK should leave without a deal if Brussels refuses to make any further concessions - a six...

19-year-old Steven Edginton says young people need to rise up for Brexit and join the March to Leave from Sunderland to London from 16th to 29th March... Young people, rise up! We marched against the...

The Queen has given her blessing to a plan to chop down a dozen Windsor oak trees to build a replica of a magnificent Anglo-Saxon burial ship. Containing extraordinary treasure, the...

Titania McGrath amassed a huge following on Twitter thanks to a ludicrous – yet all-too-plausible – stream of ‘right-on’ commentary for a Millennial generation...

Mark Francois, the Conservative MP for Rayleigh and Wickford and the Deputy Leader of the pro-Brexit ERG, and left-wing author Will Self had a bust-up on the BBC's Politics Live after Self made a disgusting slur against 17,410,742 voters...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world, according to the 2019 Forbes billionaires' list released this week. With an estimated fortune of $131bn (£99bn) he is the wealthiest man in modern history...

The time for kicking the can down the road has come to an end and MPs – especially in the governing party – have to look over the edge at the train of events that they are going to set off if they don’t hold out for No Deal and leaving on 29th March...

An A-Z of Brexit according to Remainers, listing the lexicon of doublespeak and some of the leading runners and riders, in dictionary form. You’ll find the real meaning of each expression in italics . . ...

A group of documents believed to have been signed by Mary, Queen of Scots, have come to light at the Museum of Edinburgh after decades spent unseen...

Experts say a sword fragment will help them better understand the "practice of hoarding" in the Bronze Age...

At the Park des Princes in Paris last night Manchester United were heading out of the Champions League until a goal four minutes into injury time at the end of the match sent them through to the quarter finals. And they also made a bit of Champions League history...

A "small football-sized" cannonball thought to have been fired during the English Civil War has been found wedged in a wall. It was discovered during repair work at Castle Cornet in Guernsey. 'English Civil War cannonball' found in castle wall BBC News 7 March 2019 Stonemasons found the...

Someone courageous with cunning and a devout belief in Brexit needs to come back to Brussels. That much should also be obvious. Independence must be immediate and unconditional...

Henry VI and his wife Margaret of Anjou were joined in bed by their most trusted courtiers, a historian has revealed. Lauren Johnson has uncovered evidence in the National Archives and...

An Anglo-Saxon sword dating back 1,400 years which was engraved with a swastika by its historical owner is set to fetch up to £3,000...

Jack the Ripper's victims were not prostitutes but mainly homeless women, a new book has claimed. Historian...

The UK political commentariat are a lazy bunch. Brexit is one of their biggest topics in decades – a bonanza that any amateur can pitch in on – yet remarkably few have got to grips with the key texts. If they had, they would realise Brexit is at that stage of the chess game where the...

Here, historian Sean Lang rounds up eight of the most affable kings in history – most of whom were too nice for their own good… 8 of the nicest kings in history...

A visitor from Mars tuning into events in Britain in recent months would rightly be shocked by the political paralysis in Westminster, the calamitous state of the motor industry, and the mortal damage to immediate business confidence caused by Brexit uncertainty...

In pro-Remain circles, there is an obsession with the economic dimension of Brexit. What will it do to jobs? The amount of time lorries have to wait at Dover? Will we have to pay €7 to visit Europe post-Brexit? What about data-roaming charges when we’re holidaying in Spain? Have you thought...