Polls saying the nationalist cause is no priority among voters are misleading. The aspiration to once again be a sovereign European state has only been strengthened by devolution Like an arthritic old tree in autumn, the Scottish National party is shedding its voters. It does this almost seasonally, a shrivel followed years later by another…

Stalwart defender is edging towards 940 games for the League Two club where he began his career among the Crazy Gang Dean Lewington made his first professional appearance as an 18-year-old in April 2003, a few months before the launch of MySpace and 938 games later (814 in the league) he is preparing for the…

With the ex-president punished for violating a gag order, the third week of the hush-money trial resembled his fraud case It was deja vu for Donald Trump at his Manhattan criminal trial this week in more ways than one. Six months ago a New York judge threatened to throw a former US president in prison…

The founding members of the band on early gigs, a magical brush with a Beatle, and being lifelong friends Tom Chaplin and Tim Rice-Oxley are childhood friends and founding members of Keane, a group from Battle, East Sussex. The band formed in 1995 and released their debut album, Hopes and Fears, in 2004. It won them…

Students across the US are forging bonds in the face of brutal power structures. You might say they’ve already won Teaching an undergraduate class on democracy at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs this semester has felt urgent and clarifying. In the classroom, we’ve been looking at backsliding and the slow corrosion of…

A rocky patch in Ava and Logan’s marriage forced them to talk openly about their desires – and now they’re having their best sex ever How do you do it? Share the story of your sex life, anonymously We watch porn frequently, which is a positive thing we do together. I’ve learned new things about…

Inscrutable bureaucracy and monstrous insects may not sound immediately appealing, but once you’re lost in Kafka’s world you won’t want to escape Kafka has become such a cultural icon that even the most private, obscure, or fragmentary of his writings have reached huge audiences: diaries, letters, unpublished notes, mystifying aphorisms, or conversation slips he made…