'Humour,” Evelyn Waugh wrote, “is the most ephemeral artistic quality.” He himself never found “anything really laughable in Aristophanes or Shakespeare”. Who does? Yet one supposes that Shakespeare’s ...

Johnny Vegas and Katherine Parkinson star in Andrew Lynch's adaptation of the George and Weedon Grossmith's comic novel of 1892. The Diary Of A Nobody is a social vignette of Charles Pooter, a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

IF you want to know what artists are up to, the thing to do is to read their diaries. Such objects used to be kept under clasp and key but, in the modern world, musicians need exposure and many post ...

I considered starting this diary: “Very hot. Today was a day of annoyance. Boris Johnson has not left No 10 yet.” But I thought better of it. By Ian Hislop I have spent the week rereading The Diary of ...

"It's aye the pooter," Dennis Bethune, a Scotsman who lives in Dornoch, once said. He was referring to the importance the putter plays in a tournament. These days he could say, "It's aye the long ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...