FOR the final column of 2025, I present my annual awards – aided and abetted, as ever, by the invaluable feedback you send my ...

It is a good general rule that you should not interrupt your enemy when they are in the process of making a mistake. So I ...

Angry Ginge may currently be serving a three-match ban, after getting a red card for not paying tax, but her crusade to ...

SENIOR barristers have accused the Justice Secretary of misrepresenting figures about rape cases to fast-track the abolition ...

Sir Keir Starmer says the "hugely talented" Angela Rayner will return to his Cabinet. Ms Rayner resigned as deputy prime ...

Angela Rayner will "not be played like a pawn," a source close to the former deputy prime minister has said, after claims of ...

Keir Starmer is apparently alarmed that Angela Rayner has no longer been taking his calls. He is right to be worried. An intense recent dinner conversation with Michael Levy, a serial funder of ...

Torsten Bell, parliamentary secretary for the Treasury, kicked off with a foul-mouthed rant that left colleagues cringing. Bell may have the face of a choirboy, but he rants like a drunken sailor on ...

Scientists have traced kissing back to early primates, suggesting it began long before humans evolved. Their analysis points to great apes and even Neanderthals sharing forms of kissing millions of ...

For humans, kissing holds major cultural cachet, accompanying confessions of romantic love, religious rituals of reverence and even betrayals, à la The Godfather Part II’s “kiss of death.” New ...

It seems that kissing is an age-old practice, spanning back 21 million years. This is the finding of University of Oxford and Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) researchers who have unearthed ...

The first kiss in history probably took place over 16.9 million years ago — long before humans even existed, a new study suggests. Despite its popularity in many cultures among lovers, family members ...