The figure keeping Ireland’s most famous modern-day vigil is unlikely to warm the cockles.

Pride, prejudice and promenades: Austen's year of celebration but are we at peak Jane?

Now another Christmas is over, it's safe to ask tough questions about the annual festival.

The auction of crime writer Raymond Chandler's old listicle sparks some genuine surprise.

Brexit, Royals and the Jaguar rebrand expose UK contradictions.

The downfall of a former "scallywag with a heart of gold".

From Dictionnaire to Cautions, France and Britain fight battles to police words.

It seems perverse that Taylor Swift couldn’t outgun a septuagenarian convicted felon.

The National Trust’s new vision for heritage site sparks debate and division.

Being able to determine one’s class by the words one uses may be on its way out.

Economists are generally keener on weight-loss drugs than doctors.

Can you legislate to force a business to have an adequate IT system?

Viewers were pounded with such an onslaught of garishness as to cause outrage outage.

Celebrities might be able to get away with underwear as outwear; us mere mortals cannot.

Opinion: Too much time on a screen is bad for kids’ development, right?

Opinion: At what point do facts spoil travellers' fun?

Science is losing its sheen thanks to two new reports on diet & exercise.

It’s a forecast no Irish person with a sense of history expected ever to hear again.

Jane Clifton: You know a fad has hit the big time when it’s on the shelves of M&S.

Debating what’s “common” according to a celebrity designer becomes new Christmas tradition

A 350-page sulk by a jilted British MP reveals no scandal or conspiracy.

"Politicians, officials and scientists are still at war over the most basic facts."

Recent complaints from indignant drivers have brought to light a little-known scheme.

A third of UK residents don’t wash their towels above every three months.

What if an alternative route to greatness was a nasty, brutish, Dickensian childhood?

As so often, the real problem is not the changes themselves, but fear of them.

Here, Fox News starts after dusk in this busy corner-section garden.

Manicured lawns are making way for gardens that are naturalistic.

Pubs in Britain and parts of Europe are dabbling in what we might call Unhappy Hour.

Tactics include shrinkflation, placebo and condescension

The joyful activity of attending a pop concert turns out to be fiscally damaging.

The frustration when catching a plane wouldn't be accepted in any other modern activity.

No one but a dutiful medical professional wants to be the killjoy who dwells on risk.

This chance discovery could revolutionise the way we eat and help fight obesity.

It’s easy to blame the internet. But youths were developing their own culture for aeons.

They will improve life for a probable majority, but have sparked a lot of criticism.