With the greenback enjoying an incumbency advantage, many efforts to dethrone the US dollar have fizzled out over the decades ...

A version of this article was originally published in last week’s issue of The Spectator. What set Margaret Thatcher apart ...

At the conclave that ratified the deal, Keynes invoked Sleeping Beauty, the ballet by Tchaikovsky. He hoped good fairies would guide the custodians of this new order, according to a biography by ...

Even in his intellectual journey, he similarly took on giants like Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. It was such a rebellious attitude towards established icons and ideas that makes him an ...

He is the author of an award-winning biography of John Maynard Keynes and “The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning” (Allen Lane, 2023). This article was distributed by Project Syndicate.

My subject this morning is Leelananda De Silva with comments on his book The Long Littleness of Life: a memoir of government, ...

Dame Janet “Jinty” Nelson, who has died aged 82, was a leading historian of early medieval Europe, a professor at King’s College, London, and the first female president of the Royal Historical Society ...

A Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection of the Milton Keynes University Hospital took place in April, prompted by the hospital after the death of a patient. Information shared with the CQC ...

This morning will be dry with variable amounts of cloud. In the afternoon it will be dry with sunshine but it will turn cloudier towards the end of the day. Tonight Tonight will start cloudy with ...