Melanie McDonagh

Coincidentally with the sad passing of Esther Rantzen who spent her last couple of years campaigning for assisted suicide, there’s just been an interesting case of an assisted dying going wrong. The state of Tennessee kills prisoners sentenced to...

Coincidentally with the sad passing of Esther Rantzen, who spent her last couple of years campaigning for assisted suicide in the UK, there's just been an interesting case of an assisted dying going wrong.

Were you devastated to hear that the consumer programme You and Yours is to be axed in the latest round of BBC cuts? Me neither. Nor The Artificial Human nor Thinking Allowed. In fact, there’s a whole raft of BBC radio programmes that I hasten to...

Were you devastated to hear that the consumer programme You and Yours is to be axed in the latest round of BBC cuts? Me neither. Nor The Artificial Human nor Thinking Allowed. In fact, there’s a whole raft of BBC radio programmes that I hasten to...

Were you devastated to hear that the consumer programme You and Yours is to be axed in the latest round of BBC cuts? Me neither.

Renoir once observed, “I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.” And that's what he does to the National Gallery.

The show’s title, Renoir and Love, suggests romantic love, but that’s not all, writes Melanie McDonagh

Prince Harry has spoken – at some length – about wanting a reconciliation with his father and brother in his first sit-down interview since returning to the UK

Move over, Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London. The man people want to see out on the capital’s streets is a philanthropist dressed as Batman who is going around doing good. He’s handed out £70 petrol vouchers for motorists queuing for fuel and paid the fines given to people parked outside a hospital.

If reconciliation with the royal family is really foremost in his mind, the duke needs to stop treating them as a way to pay the bills