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So much for the Remoaners coming together as one... Coffee House Steerpike ‘Unite for Europe’ march turns sour Steerpike Steerpike 26 March 2017 The Spectator With Theresa May on track to trigger Article 50 on...

Army veterans have taken over the pub their regiment was formed in 312 years ago after it was at risk of closure. The Staffordshire Regiment was formed in The King's Head in Lichfield in Staffordshire in 1705. Staffordshire veterans take over historic Lichfield army pub 26 March 2017 BBC...

This modern map shows what Anglo-Saxon London may have looked like. As well as showing the Anglo-Saxon centre, the map also includes many of the villages that surrounded it, with their earliest recorded names. Roman roads, which were still used but probably in ill repair, are also marked, as...

A rare volume of etchings of Queen Victoria's baby - drawn by the monarch herself - that caused a Royal scandal after they were leaked to a journalist have gone on display. The drawings are on show at Harewood House, near Leeds in West Yorkshire, as part of an exhibition that also...

Britain is to pull out of a deal that allows European fishing vessels access to its waters, Theresa May is expected to announce. The move would see the UK taken out of the 1964 London Convention, which predates the establishment of the modern EU, and effectively give the country's fishermen a...

Jean-Claude Juncker could have been invented by Nigel Farage’s spin doctors. He is a sneering one-man advert for Brexit, Frexit and any other kind of EU-exit. As Hugo Rifkind argues in this week’s magazine, he is a caricature of the arrogant Eurocrat: “smug, lazy, unelected and utterly...

There must be "no place for terrorists to hide" and intelligence services must have access to encrypted messaging services, the Home Secretary has said. It comes after it emerged that Khalid Masood was reportedly on the messaging app WhatsApp two minutes before an attack in Westminster...

Colonel Percy Fawcett’s hellish experience at the Battle of the Somme convinced him there must be a better world – and he spent the rest of his life trying to find it. His quest led him to hunt for a fabled ancient lost city in the Brazilian jungle, which he simply called Z but which was...

Charlie Haylock takes us on a tour of the historical origins of many of the words and phrases we still use today… From the ‘green-eyed monster’ to ‘a stiff upper lip’: the evolution of the English language...

The European Union’s remaining 27 leaders will declare the EU to be “undivided and indivisible” at an anniversary summit today, despite the looming reality of Brexit and weeks of bitter disagreement over the text of the Rome Declaration setting out the future of the bloc. The EU leaders...

Hundreds of letters written by King George III, the so-called "Mad King," support the modern diagnosis that he suffered from mental illness during his later years, a new study found. Using computer analysis, researchers investigated letters written by George during his 60-year reign...

Every time there is a terrorist atrocity, either here or abroad, the politicians go through the same old motions, mouthing platitudes about never surrendering to evil. But by their actions they betray their hollow rhetoric and the rest of us have to live with the consequences. It is the...

The first dinosaurs may have originated in the Northern Hemisphere, possibly in an area that is now Britain. This is one of the conclusions of the first detailed re-evaluation of the relationships between dinosaurs for 130 years. It shows that the current theory of how dinosaurs evolved and...

The stormy rivalry between England's Queen Elizabeth I and her cousin's daughter Mary, Queen Of Scots.... Deadly Rivals: Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots...

Liverpool is marking the 50th birthday of The Beatles' Sgt Pepper album by asking a dizzying array of performers to reinterpret the songs in the city. From choirs to cabaret performers and musicians to artists, each will stage an event inspired by a different track. The album - released on...

A 430-million-year-old fossil discovered "frozen in time" in ancient volcanic rock has been named after Sir David Attenborough. The tiny crustacean, measuring less than 1cm long, was found by researchers in Herefordshire. It has been named Cascolus Ravitis, the first word a Latin rendering of...

New facial reconstruction of a man buried in a medieval hospital graveyard discovered underneath a Cambridge college sheds light on how ordinary poor people lived in medieval England...

A searing hot laser capable of cutting through aircraft in seconds has been demonstrated for the first time by the Ministry of Defence. Using their official YouTube channel, the MoD uploaded a clip of the prototype invention melting an 82mm mortar in a matter of seconds.... Hot stuff...

Scotland is supposed to be a land which, nowadays, doesn't like Tories that much. So how do you account for the new poll which shows TWO Tories are more popular amongst Scots than their nationalist First Minister Nicola Sturgeon? The Sky poll found that Prime Minister Theresa May and Scottish...

Lord Tebbit has today said the 'world is a sweeter place ' after Martin McGuinness's death at 66 and called him a 'multi-murderer coward' who turned to peace 'to save his own skin'. Mr McGuinness, once nicknamed the 'Butcher of Bogside', was considered Britain's number one terrorist...