It’s my favourite field, this one above the village, hare-run, rutted with frost and, on the top of the rise, the gean tree

Conservative Sir Alister Jack - who bet on the election date - is set to be given a seat in the Lords.

Penny Fielding explores the dangerous collaboration between Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife, Fanny: granting female agency on the page and in life.

Pledge to fix broken welfare system follows new evidence that people are worried about returning to work for fear that benefits will be withdrawn