Sir — Naomi Osaka won her second US Open women’s singles trophy and her third Grand Slam in a thrilling match last week (“Feet on ground, star reclaims sky”, Sept 14). Osaka pl...

The UK government is planning to introduce a so-called “Seat Out to Help Out” scheme to help theatres and other entertainment venues reopen after an extended period of coronavirus lockdown...

Indian restaurants in Britain have given a warm welcome to possibly the most innovative part of Rishi Sunak’s mini-budget in which the chancellor urged the nation to eat out at half price in ord...

After less than a month in office, the new British chancellor of the exchequer, Rishi Sunak, gave a very assured and confident performance in presenting his first budget on Wednesday when he unveiled ...

Few Bengali women get the chance to make Western art ‘accessible’ to a British television audience, but Sona Datta has been presenting an hour-long BBC documentary, Michelangelo: The Good, the Bad...

Britain’s chancellor Rishi Sunak took centre stage on Friday and said the government will cover 80 per cent of salaries up to £2,500 a month, with workers staying on the books of employers.He said ...

The word or expression of the year 2020 will probably turn out to be ‘self-isolate’. But what we are to read if we have to be confined to our homes on account of the Covid-19 pandemic was discusse...

Laura Thompson’s Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life shows why the British probably write the best biographies. This is an updated version of the biography first brought out in 2007. But 2020 is spec...

Sajid Javid, who resigned two weeks ago as chancellor because he would not fire his special advisers at the treasury as demanded by Boris Johnson in his cabinet reshuffle, has made a “personal state...

Last week, after Sajid Javid resigned in a huff as chancellor of the exchequer, the British prime minister, Boris Johnson, sprang an almighty surprise by replacing him with Rishi Sunak. The surprise i...