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The Prince of Wales has embarked on his tour of European diplomacy in tried and tested royal fashion: ingratiating himself with Romanian locals with a traditional dance. The prince did not need to be asked twice when a group of traditional performers invited him to join them as he...

An Iron Age chariot and two horse skeletons have been unearthed at an East Yorkshire building site. The 2,500-year-old remains have been dubbed by experts as 'highly unusual'. The find is the first of its kind in the last 200 years and one of only 26 ever excavated in the UK. It has been...

We know that 73 per cent of MPs want to stay in the EU. We know many in the House of Lords are horrified by Brexit and were keen to hold it up. We know 70 per cent of business leaders wanted Britain to remain, and that some of them launched costly legal battles to try to stymie the Brexit...

A man has reportedly jumped off Westminster Bridge a week after a terror attack brought carnage to the London landmark. The Met Police said: 'Emergency Services are dealing with reports of a man in the water near Westminster Bridge. This is not being treated as suspicious.' BREAKING NEWS...

The historic letter that will finally trigger our divorce from the EU has arrived in Brussels. Nine months after the people delivered their verdict in the referendum, UK envoy Sir Tim Barrow arrived at the European Council's offices bearing a diplomatic bag thought to contain the...

It seems the British love of curries is not a new phenomenon. An antique cookbook from 1793 listing a recipe for curry was discovered by monks, and now budding chefs will have the chance to try the dish at home. The book, which contains the oldest known recipe for an English curry as well as...

How inconvenient it was for the anti-Brexit march on Parliament that a policeman guarding the home of British democracy should have been murdered there only days before their planned mass demonstration. The Metropolitan Police had indicated to the organisers that it would place further...

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...