The name’s Schama, Simon Schama . . . Schaken, not Schtirred. Telly’s foremost cultural historian is nursing a soft spot for literature’s most politically incorrect spy. Drooling over a ...

Taoiseach Simon Harris has welcomed the Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal following “15 months of immense human suffering and destruction”. Mr Harris said he hoped the deal will now receive the ...

Simon Schama examines how artists and writers, ranging from James Bond creator Ian Fleming to two-tone band The Specials, have responded to the changing face of post-imperial Britain. Show more ...

President Michael D Higgins was right to make reference to the war in Gaza during a speech marking Holocaust Memorial Day, Tánaiste Simon Harris has said. Several members of the Jewish community ...

Simon Schama looks at artists who’ve explored why the landscape matters to people's sense of who they are. From Philip Larkin to Seamus Heaney and Derek Jarman. Featuring U2’s Bono.

Historian Simon Schama explores how a phrase very similar to the term ‘fake news’ was co-opted by the Jacobin government in France to silence any ‘enemies of the people’. Those ‘enemies ...

In this middle episode, Schama traces how artists have tried to make sense of Britain’s place in the world following the end of the empire. He touches on the writing of Hanif Kureishi and ...

Donald Trump’s impending return to the White House is a major push factor behind a ceasefire deal in Gaza, which appears ... to be apprehensive, said Simon Frankel Pratt, a senior political ...

Simon Harris has welcomed the Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal following “15 months of immense human suffering and destruction”. The Taoiseach said he hoped the deal will now receive the formal ...

Picture: Maxwell’s President Michael D Higgins was correct to mention Gaza during his speech at a Holocaust commemoration event, Tánaiste Simon Harris has said. Mr Harris said that it was ...