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I was supposed to interview the actor Ewan McGregor today. We’ve met a few times. Once at Soho House in Los Angeles with our families, another time as we disembarked a plane, also in LA, and walked together for 15 minutes to passport control. On both occasions he was friendly and charming. We...

From sexual innuendo to ‘trial’ marriages – the ancient Egyptians were not so different to us when it came to affairs of the heart... Love, sex and marriage in ancient Egypt...

A Roman man living in Northamptonshire had a gruesome ending, as researchers have discovered that his tongue had been cut out. The man's skeleton was discovered in 1991, and now an analysis of the remains shows that the muscle had been replaced by a stone. The reasons for the removal of...

Today, Tutankhamun is ancient Egypt’s most famous pharaoh. But how much do you really know about the boy king? Here, historian Joyce Tyldesley brings you eight lesser-know facts… 8 things you (probably) didn’t know about Tutankhamun...

Archaeologists studying an ancient inscription on a remote Scottish island have been left divided over whether it is a Viking engraving after its letters spelt FURKU.AL Experts cannot make up their minds for certain if it is a modern expletive or a carving over 1,300 years old that has...

A 400-year-old shopping list for 'green fish', pewter spoons and a new frying pan has been discovered under the floorboards of a historic Tudor mansion in Kent. The shopping list and two other letters, dating from 1603, 1622 and 1633, were discovered at Knole House in Sevenoaks by archaeology...

Donald Trump is planning a new deal for Britain this week as Theresa May becomes the first foreign leader to meet him since the inauguration. With hundreds of thousands of people across the world protesting his presidency, Mr Trump’s team was working with Number 10 to finalise plans for White...

Archaeological research at a site in Dumfries and Galloway has suggested it may have been at the heart of a "lost kingdom" from the Dark Ages. Ronan Toolis led the excavation works at Trusty's Hill Fort at Gatehouse of Fleet. It unearthed evidence that it might have been the royal seat of the...

"I wanted to point out, respectfully, that democracy is the Electoral College system that saw Trump turn the map from blue to red. But there were a few million of them. And they had pictures of v aginas. So I decided this was not the time. I thought I heard the women chanting 'Menstrual...

Buried in Thameside mud and only unearthed more than 160 years later, the Victoria Cross found by a lucky treasure hunter had an incredible story to tell. Tobias Neto stumbled on the VC in December while examining the foreshore with his metal detector. With the help of the Museum of...

Alfred the Great’s relationship with the Danes was defined by compromise as well as the power of the sword... How England rode the Viking storm...

President Donald Trump didn't take long to put his stamp on the Oval Office, reinstalling a bust of Winston Churchill that had got the boot under President Obama. The Churchill bust was on view as Trump took some of his first actions as president, signing executive orders and a waiver...

UKIP leader Paul Nuttall will stand in the Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election on 23 February, the party has said. A by-election was triggered earlier this month when Labour MP Tristram Hunt quit to become the director of London's Victoria and Albert Museum. The seat is traditionally a safe...

A new book reveals the secrets some of our Victorian ancestors kept under wraps, such as Darwin's beard hiding his eczema, Prime Minister William Gladstone having a missing finger and Tennyson suffering rotten teeth... Darwin's beard hid his eczema, Gladstone had a finger missing and Tennyson...

Jeremy Corbyn will order Labour to vote in favour of triggering Article 50 in a move likely to prompt a rebellion of around 30 MPs, including several frontbenchers. The Labour leader signalled on Thursday that he would impose a three-line whip if the government lost its Supreme Court challenge...

She can’t unilaterally guarantee a good deal for Britain, but her approach is careful and sensible Theresa May has taken control – this is a Brexit plan the EU can't stop James Forsyth 21 January 2017 The Spectator 'No negotiation without notification' has been the EU’s mantra since 24 June...

As president, Barack Obama was too cool for the special relationship. The romantic bond between the United States and Great Britain, which always makes Churchill fans go all soggy-eyed, left him cold. Obama was more interested in globalism, ‘pivoting’ to Asia and the European Union...

Theresa May banged the drum for post-Brexit Britain in a speech to the power elite in Davos today - but also took them to task for failing to heed fears about immigration and inequality. In an outspoken ultimatum to corporate titans and politicians at the annual gathering in non-EU...

Rescuers say up to 30 people are missing after a hotel in central Italy was hit by an avalanche, apparently triggered by an earthquake. Rescuers battled overnight to reach the Rigopiano hotel, with the first of them arriving on skis. Snow dislodged by the avalanche had blocked the roads...

Will Peggy finally reveal herself? Scientists studying the splendour of Saturn's rings are hoping soon to get a resolved picture of an embedded object they know exists but cannot quite see. The moonlet is named after London researcher Carl Murray's mother-in-law, and was first noticed in 2013...