In The Merchant of Venice 1936, which comes to The Lowry next week, Shakespeare’s harsh plot snaps into place against this backdrop. Shylock, its anti-hero, is a Jewish moneylender who becomes ...

I HIT bottom. But then I heard somebody tapping from underneath.” Just when it seemed that he could sink no lower, Donald Trump is reaching ...

As for those Democrats, the party faces a choice as it prepares to challenge MAGAism. It can reconstitute itself into something that looks and feels more like a movement, far less careful and far more ...