Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish climate change activist, now on a mission to bring aid and highlight the plight of Palestinians in Gaza, is sailing into what will be a…

Farage’s Reform Party has followed its usual pattern of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory by losing a major donor and strategist just as they looked like becoming a…

Will the Musk fallout do damage? Trump in the past has made up with enemies before; and in addition has brushed off allegations and accusations of bad behaviour that would…

The Nazi Minister of Propaganda or the Hexenmeister, chief sorcerer of lies, Joseph Goebbels, is the subject of a new film. It spotlights his strained relationship with Hitler despite his…

Jupiter embodies generosity and magnanimity. In Cancer, the sign of the mother, the purity of a mother’s love positively grows, like the generous and enfolding arms of the Divine Mother…

 Derek Jarman, artist, writer, designer, gardener and activist, who died thirty years ago, is celebrated in an exhibition of his ‘dark paintings’ in London and in the publication of a…

Edmund White, essayist, playwright, novelist and chronicler of gay life, has died aged 85, having suffered from HIV since 1984. He once said of his generation: “Gay fiction before that,…

The Duke of Windsor’s wedding to ‘the woman I love’ Wallis Simpson, by all accounts a sad affair six months after his abdication with none of his family present took…

Far-right Dutch leader Geert Wilders has withdrawn his party from the government, over a row about immigration bringing down the governing coalition after less than a year. There was shock…

Welcome to the month of June, with its energies of burgeoning life. We are approaching the Summer Solstice, the peak of the solar light and energy of the year. The Sun,…