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Even after the referendum, some Remainers are clinging to Project Fear. Nick Clegg reckons leaving the EU could push up prices because of a 22 per cent tariff on food. Sheesh, Nick, the campaign is over. The votes have been counted. We’re leaving the EU. You don’t need to keep insulting us...

A huge panorama print of London produced 300 years ago has emerged for sale - and shows not only how much the capital has changed but also highlights a tumultuous royal row in Georgian Britain... The King in his carriage, sailboats on the Thames and not an office block in sight: Amazing...

There are days when I wonder if our country is utterly mad. I wonder if our government, so utterly devoid of a backbone, thinks it can take taxpayers for a joke, mock every hour of every long shift they put in to fund this country. The so-called 'child' migrants from Calais are a perfect...

Today is 800 years exactly since one of England's most reviled monarchs, King John, died from dysentery. BBC News examines how this gut-wrenching condition has claimed the lives of several English kings, changing the course of history. King John: Dysentery and the death that changed...

Thomas Asbridge explores a remarkable medieval friendship - that of Henry the Young King (the second of five legitimate sons of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, who was the only English king since the Norman Conquest to be crowned in the lifetime of his father but never exercised any real...

Britain is building a wall to keep out the migrants at the Jungle camp in Calais. Now we can see why... BREAKING: Female journalist 'raped by knife-wielding migrants' at Calais Jungle camp A FEMALE interpreter working on a documentary about the plight of vulnerable...

REMOANERS like Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband, who encourage calls for Britain to be kept in the European Union, should be tried for treason, a petition has urged. Christian Holliday, a Conservative councillor from Surrey, hopes to amend the Victorian-era legislation to reclassify support...

Poor Melissa Kite can't get through dinner without a Remainer rudely interrupting her.... Real life Can't I just get through dinner without some Remainer interrupting? No. Of course not Melissa Kite...

THERESA May has vowed to look beyond Europe and “forge a new global role for the UK” as she prepares to lead her first major trade mission next month, to India. The Prime Minister claimed that the UK will become the “most passionate, most consistent, and most convincing advocate for free...

If MPs want a revolution, ignoring the result of the EU in/out referendum would be a surefire way to start one... DAN HODGES: If you want a revolution, this is how to spark it. The people spoke on Brexit - but MPs stuck their fingers in their ears and ignored them. This could get nasty... By...

British scientists will face ‘six minutes of terror’ next week as the Schiaparelli space probe plunges to the surface of Mars after a seven month journey. If successful, it will be the first time a European mission has successfully landed on a planet. Although Britain's ill-fated Beagle 2...

Yesterday's League One match between London club Charlton Athletic and Coventry City was delayed for five minutes after both sets of fans threw little plastic pigs onto the pitch at Charlton's The Valley stadium. The supporters were protesting against the two clubs' respective owners, and...

Although Victorians faced many public health problems, could it be that they ate more healthily than us? Michael Mosley, presenter of the BBC's new living history series The Victorian Slum, investigates... How to eat like a Victorian BBC News Michael Mosley Although Victorians faced...

Why was Domesday Book made? What does it say about the impact of the Normans on England? And what more can we learn from it? Stephen Baxter considers the big questions about this pivotal work… Domesday Book: The most important document in English history...

An excavation in Devon has turned up a child’s shoe which could be hundreds of years old. Archaeologists carrying out a dig in the heart of Newton Abbot were stunned when they came across the ancient footwear. The leather shoe, which has been well-preserved in the clay soil at the site, could...

SNP leader and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and her anti-English brigade must be faced down. Theresa May should call her bluff over her demands for another referendum and grant it to her, for Sturgeon is using them to extort yet more largesse from the beleaguered British...

Clearly, the Brexit story is going to be full of drama. In the last week alone we have had an appeal to the High Court on behalf of the sacred sovereignty of the British Parliament - and Marmitegate. Neither of these things was what it seemed. The solemn court action, couched in the high-flown...

Tributes will be paid to the 116 children and 28 adults who lost their lives in the Aberfan disaster at events on Saturday. It will be 50 years on 21 October since a coal waste tip collapsed and submerged a school near Merthyr Tydfil. Veterans from The King's Own Royal Border Regiment will...

Jean Alexander, who played Coronation Street's Hilda Ogden and Auntie Wainwright in Last of the Summer Wine, has died aged 90. Alexander portrayed Hilda Ogden, a sharp-tongued, put-upon housewife who was one of Coronation Street's best known characters, from 1964 to 1987. She appeared as...

A new portrait to mark the Queen's six decades as patron of the British Red Cross has been unveiled by the monarch. In the painting, the Queen wears her garter robes as she sits in the White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle. The artwork, which was unveiled at Windsor Castle, is by artist Henry...