A penetrating analysis of social organisation argues that the West's 'inclusive' states show signs of a relapse.

Forget the double-dip recession, ignore record unemployment, the rich are getting richer.

Shoppers snapping up luxury looks while sitting on the sofa each evening have helped online fashion site Net-a-Porter match the sales growth of its stablemates like Cartier and Montblanc at designer brands giant Richemont.

Shoppers snapping up luxury looks while sitting on the sofa each evening have helped online fashion site Net-a-Porter match the sales growth of its stablemates like Cartier and Montblanc at designer brands giant Richemont.

Cannes curtain-raiser Wes Anderson is still the king of quirk, says Tim Walker

Cannes curtain-raiser Wes Anderson is still the king of quirk

Baron Cohen's back, with jokes to make Colonel Gaddafi wince

Safety checks aimed at spotting improper spending by schools and academies are inadequate, MPs will warn today.

London Irish have announced the signing of Catalan Dragons rugby league star Setaimata Sa on a three-year deal.

Real wealth-creators are bearing the brunt of austerity, while money-shufflers swim in luxury. Welcome to modern Britain.

The Vice of the People represents a passing of the folk-rock baton to another generation, Ashley Hutchings' son Blair Dunlop taking the reins and, with a coterie of young players, injecting youthful fire into the band's trad-folk stylings.

Despite the linkage suggested by the hyphen, Handel and Caldara never worked together; rather, the latter replaced the former as composer to Cardinal Ruspoli in Rome.

Five years after his presidential campaign was derailed by scandalous revelations that he had fathered an illegitimate child with a former member of staff, John Edwards will face a jury this morning which will decide whether alleged murky efforts to cover up the affair should land him in prison.

To modern readers, many 1930s writers might as well be using Shakespearian English, such is the grace and complexity of their language. Is this why Elizabeth Jenkins has disappeared from bookshops?