It's now been over 40 years since fans were banned from drinking in view of the pitch in the top five leagues of England ...

The current debate about the high cost of building new railways (Report, January 14) ignores the successful example set by ...

Live Aid shifted the political centre of gravity by fusing the worlds of pop and politics. Forty years on, its impact is ...

The Boomtown Rats were in their heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, with Bob putting himself in the cultural zeitgeist permanently ...

John Major’s government cut defence spending to below 3% of gross domestic product (GDP) in in 1995, and it has not risen above that level since.

Modern British home defence plans have their roots in the 1950s, taking in everything from invading forces in the Shetlands to the death of ...

From Iran to Iraq, Brazil to Vietnam, Washington has sought to topple leaders and regimes it thinks are acting against its ...

It was a bad day for the Prime Minister yesterday. Sir John Nott spoke of her use of "feminine charms" in the Cabinet, Mr Nicholas Fairbairn told of her encounter with a drunken, lecherous guest at a ...

Although the Congress Party brought in neoliberalism, it suited the right-wing BJP better, notwithstanding the nationalistic ...

Among promising titles are a book about France’s dark side and Jon Ronson’s exploration of multimillionaires searching for ...

A Labour MP was used by Communist spies to give a KGB propaganda speech to ‘discredit’ Margaret Thatcher's government and damage its defence policies. Frank Cook, a shadow minister and later member of ...

Japan is no stranger to political volatility, often characterised by a rapid turnover of prime ministers, and when Sanae Takaichi took office in October, many had believed her premiership would not ...