The Conservatives have no way out of their own Brexit trap, Robert Shrimsley wrote in the Financial Times this week. Either they appease powerful party members crying betrayal over her attempts to shift negotiations into soft Brexit mode or she goes hard in spite of the well documented repercussions. It's Spam for her country on the one hand or an egg in the face from her disfranchised colleagues on the other. In Shrimsley's words, it would be funny if we...

Commonly seen as a theatre of the absurd play, Exit the King (this is a new version by Patrick Marber) is one of four by Eugène Ionesco where the main protagonist Berenger is written as a kind of Every Person. Though Ionesco is a towering presence in the history of modern theatre, often grouped by critic and scholar Martin Esslin with writers like Sam Beckett and Jean Genet, this is the first time his work has ever been performed at...

The world's first 100 per cent mobile car rental service has launched in London. Sitting somewhere between Zipcar and Sixt it enables Londoners to book journeys, locate and unlock their cars within minutes, using entirely their mobile phone. With a fleet of Mercedes A-Class cars that can be booked for as little as £35 per day the brand-new cars are now available to book in five locations across the capital, with lots at Victoria, Waterloo and King's Cross stations as well as in...

A British daughter has written this astonishing open letter to her mother about Brexit. It doesn't pull any punches.

The strong-tasting leaf is not affected by the hot dry weather as it is watered with underground aquifers.

Tried to use collapse of his Cape Town football academy to reduce tax bill

They remember local smells to build up a mental map to guide themselves across many miles of unfamiliar territory back to their loft.

Sam Clark, 14, was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) at just four years old, a rare genetic disorder which leads to blindness through gradual vision loss.

Photographer Hugh Brown uncovered those exposed to the harshest and most dangerous ways of making a living