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US President Donald Trump has just pulled his country out of this pointless, fatuous, degrading organisation. Well done, Trump. It is about time someone called the bluff of these scumbags. The US says the UNHRC is “a cesspool of political bias”. Dead right. ROD LIDDLE Trump is right to...

Argentina, Colombia, Denmark and Poland have all lost to, or failed to beat, teams ranked lower than Tunisia in their opening games. Germany have lost to Mexico, Brazil drew with Switzerland; and few teams have played as well as England did for 45 minutes in Volgograd. The second half...

The 1,500-year-old dismembered remains of three men with amputated legs and smashed skulls have been found at an ancient site in Cambridgeshire. Two of the legless corpses were placed at right angles to one another in an ancient rubbish dump with their heads turned away, while the third...

Austin Mitchell was a backbench Labour MP for 40 years before stepping down in 2015. A self-confessed maverick who refused to toe the party line, he has always been fiercely opposed to Britain remaining in the EU. Here, on the second anniversary of the EU referendum, he delivers a...

Senior Cabinet ministers have insisted the UK is prepared to walk away from Brexit talks without a deal, on the second anniversary of the referendum. Liam Fox said Theresa May was "not bluffing" over her threat to quit negotiations, while Boris Johnson called for a "full British Brexit"...

“SUCK it up,” advises Remoaner MP Anna Soubry – three little words that mean so much. “Suck it up” infers that democracy is dead in this country. “Suck it up” means that 17.4 million votes in the EU referendum — the largest mandate in British history — do not mean a damn thing. TONY PARSONS...

Tributes have been paid to renowned physicist Prof Stephen Hawking in a Westminster Abbey memorial service. British actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who played Hawking in a BBC drama, and astronaut Tim Peake were among those giving readings at the ceremony. Prof Hawking died in March, aged 76...

Mia Hansson turned her love of craft-making into a mission to recreate a full scale replica of the medieval artwork. She estimates the project will take more than a decade to complete but says it is for “handicraft interest rather than a historic one”. The 44-year-old started work on the...

The 2026 World Cup will be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico after their joint bid beat Morocco's proposal to host it. The 'United 2026' bid was selected by Fifa member nations, winning 134 votes compared to 65 for Morocco. The 2026 tournament will be the biggest World Cup ever...

She came to be known as the Virgin Queen, the commanding female monarch who defeated an Armada and launched England on its imperial adventures. But in this portrait Queen Elizabeth I appears to be little more than a diminutive and shy young woman. Discovered by Philip Mould, the BBC...

Tales of family heroics inevitably become exaggerated and embellished over time. But the descendants of Sir Thomas Noel Harris, a British Brigade-Major in the Battle of Waterloo, can finally rest assured that their ancestor really did play a pivotal and death-defying role in the decisive...

An artwork marking the anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215 has been unveiled in Surrey. Writ in Water, by Mark Wallinger, was commissioned by the National Trust. Wallinger drew inspiration from Clause 39 of the charter, which embodies the fundamental principles of justice...

Every president and prime minister would love their boys to win the World Cup but for Macron a victory inspired by Mbappé would be particularly timely. What political capital! Endless photo opportunities and references about the football team mirroring the new diverse, dynamic and...

How does a ruler defeat bloodthirsty invaders, secure a kingdom and lay the foundations for England - and then almost get written out of history? Be a woman, that's how. Exactly 1,100 years after her death Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, is emerging from the shadows. Aethelflaed: The...

Archaeologists excavating a former allotment site in a market town have made the "absolutely brilliant" find of a previously-unknown Roman wall. The dig in Sandy, Bedfordshire, has uncovered about 200 items dating from the Iron Age in 500 BC to the Saxon period in 800 AD. Among the finds...

A self-professed "mad football fan" has draped a huge flag across the front of his house to cheer on England in the World Cup. John Jupp, from Blyton, Lincolnshire, said the flag measures 1,250 sq ft in size and completely covers the front of his house. England fans in cars have been showing...