Everton defender Leighton Baines is looking forward to working with new manager Roberto Martinez and believes the quality of the Toffees' squad will give the Spaniard every chance of success.

The former Middlesbrough manager has a long-standing interest in youth football

The Young Lions lost to Italy and then Norway

This novel about an alienated genius brings a Martian perspective to life on a strange planet

The horse is part owned by Sir Alex Ferguson

The heretic thinker rips into liberal and humanist delusions - but his pessimism needs a new focus

Top trainer suffering a Group One drought hopes Oaks fancy can shine in York rehearsal

Daniel Kitson’s new show is a reflection on reality, memory and our sense of self. Hardly wall-to-wall giggles, you might think, but this publicity-shy, TV-shunning, Perrier Award-winning comic’s talent lies in burrowing into the human psyche and dispensing profound nuggets through tales in which, more often than not, he is the hapless protagonist. After The Beginning, Before The End is like a TED talk with added LOLs.

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As cynical voters scorn politics, this epic survey reminds us why its ideals still matter so much

This book tells the disturbing and important story of how major thinkers abetted genocide

The pair are all of a Twitter over philosophy

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The University of Birmingham has appointed Professor Randall Curren as Britain’s first ‘Professor of Morality’.