The combination of sluggish growth and high inflation can wreak havoc on both consumers and stock markets.

Three men injured in Provisional IRA bombings are bringing legal action against the former Sinn Fein president and are seeking just £1 in damages.

A civil trial between three men injured in Provisional IRA bombings and Gerry Adams is set to begin at the High Court on Monday. John Clark, a victim of the 1973 Old Bailey bombing in London, Jonathan ...

She held the office of prime minister longer than any other British politician in the 20th century, setting her country on a right-leaning economic path.

The people whose company I enjoy most are those from a strictly bourgeois background,” Peter Mandelson wrote to his childhood friend Steve Howell in 1973. It was, Howell observes, deeply ironic that ...

Walking under the quite correctly named Pigeon Shit Bridge on the way to Stoke-on-Trent station, a young man asks me what I am up to. I am just taking photographs of the moss that grows on the bricks ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Sanae Takaichi, the Margaret Thatcher of Japan, just won a huge victory in snap elections Getty Images Sanae Takaichi, the Margaret Thatcher of Japan, just won a huge victory in snap elections — a ...

U.S. politics this coming year will be defined by the midterm elections, and if current trends continue, Democrats could take back Congress. The question is whether, and how, Democrats can keep the ...

Margaret Thatcher’s tenure as prime minister of the United Kingdom ended 35 years ago this month. In her final week in office, during a debate in Parliament on inequality, she raised one hand high and ...

Sanae Takaichi, the new prime minister of Japan, makes a statement about work — with style. By Vanessa Friedman It’s the biggest political handbag since Margaret Thatcher entered 10 Downing Street ...

In Japan, she is known as the “iron lady,” a not-so-subtle comparison to Britain’s Margaret Thatcher — the staunch American ally who helped Ronald Reagan defeat the Soviet Union in Cold War I. Sanae ...