6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (674+ words) Not all Britons who say they follow no religious faith can be classed as total non-believers, a study has concluded, finding that a third believe in an afterlife and a quarter believe in God. Almost half the UK population, at…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (879+ words) A report claiming that large numbers of Gen Z have been going to church services prompted excitement about a religious revival. However, it has now emerged that it was based on "flawed" data after a survey had been filled in…...

18+ min ago  (809+ words) In her twenties, Cecilia Guilford decided to extricate herself from a "tumultuous" life in which a well-paid sales job and busy social life left her feeling empty. "I had no peace, no deep confidence, everything was on the surface," she…...

1+ hour, 33+ min ago  (621+ words) Renewed conflict in the Middle East may unleash Stagflation 2.0." Terence MacSwiney, a Sinn F'in Lord Mayor of Cork, who died on hunger strike in 1920 in Brixton prison while asserting the legitimacy of the Irish Republic, famously said: "It is not…...

1+ hour, 33+ min ago  (1776+ words) In recent weeks Paul Mitchell, a director of the building consultancy firm Mitchell McDermott, has been taking calls from concerned builders and developers. The war in Iran has created uncertainty in the construction sector, as many fear that surging prices…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (967+ words) Lucy Halliday grew up in Paisley borrowing Margaret Atwood books from the town library. "I checked those books out like nobody's business," says the fresh-faced 22-year-old. "Like, I loved her." Next month, in a joyous leap for her burgeoning acting…...

23+ hour, 33+ min ago  (876+ words) The actress Ann Dowd is best known for terrifying people. In her Emmy-winning role as Aunt Lydia, former primary-school teacher turned vicious overseer of Gilead (a dystopian near-future US) in The Handmaid's Tale, Dowd had one handmaid's eye plucked out…...

1+ hour, 33+ min ago  (1544+ words) We have got a problem with cohesion in our cities," thundered Lord Offord of Garvel, the former Conservative treasurer who now leads Reform UK in Scotland. The multimillionaire financier has expressed support for a vigilante group, made up of white…...

2+ hour, 33+ min ago  (249+ words) Key Changes: Radio 3s Essential History of Classical Music begins in 1026, in Arezzo, Tuscany. "Lets imagine," Gillian Moore says, "a warm spring day, a monk entering the scriptorium and hitching up his robe to take a seat at a wooden desk....

3+ hour, 19+ min ago  (623+ words) Among the restaurant critics, anything Michelin elicits a bit of an eyeroll. It's pretentious, parodic, tweezingly silly stuff. Generally we're a watchful, prickly bunch, so I think all that uncool fussing, all the eye contact, all the naff "would Madam…...