Big news this morning A “prototype” of Stonehenge has been found 3 miles from the historic site It shows that solar alignment had been achieved 500 years earlier than previously thought This profoundly changes our understanding of the henge itself

Big news this morning A “prototype” of Stonehenge has been found 3 miles from the historic site It shows that solar alignment had been achieved 500 years earlier than previously thought This profoundly changes our understanding of the henge itself

Croatia’s goalkeeper has been epic. All the hallmarks of getting a Premier League transfer for mega bucks this summer and then committing three howlers by September.

ITV right now

Should have picked Cole Palmer

The last thing you see before dying with a slightly fuller head of hair

Tom Tugendhat on how to get people to surrender In this morning’s @thetimes.com Diary

A tribute to Gladys Dickson, the doyenne of the Commons tearoom, leads the Times Diary this morning www.thetimes.com/article/9dce...

So Villa win the Europa League but West Ham get relegated Mixed week for David Cameron

Reports say the BBC will not broadcast the World Cup final halftime show in favour of analysis from Alan Shearer and Micah Richards

Euromillions tonight

Sir Thomas Lawrence’s two brothers (and a niece) are buried in the burial grounds here at Haslar. Not a lot of people know that! We (Haslar Heritage Group) went to the RA to see Thom Lawrence’s letters to confirm it. We were buzzing!. Rev Andrew was a padre here.

Can anyone lend me £11,999,500?

EXC. A £12 million portrait of the Duke of Wellington is coming on sale at Christies for only the fourth time It captures the Duke between his triumph at Waterloo and his rise to becoming prime minister www.thetimes.com/article/3f21...

Just watched Civil War and can someone explain to me how it was nominated for absolutely bugger all?

Has 2016-2026 been the most unstable decade ever in British politics? No. By my measure, it's only the 3rd worst period of prime ministerial turmoil

Labour, be like “Next time, the leader has to be a woman…” “Next time, the leader has to be a woman…” “Next time, the leader has to be a woman…” “Actually, you know that man who lost two leadership elections and isn’t yet eligible to run…”

Of course, the best thing about Andy Burnham is he’s a straight-talking northerner who says what he means

27 years after they were first introduced, both Scottish and Welsh parliaments will have separatist administrations

As it is VE Day, have revisited the “As it happened” live blog I wrote last year and found some favourite moments. You can read the whole thing here: www.thetimes.com/article/ac4b...

Arson, Churchill and unexpected duchesses 100 years ago this week, this is how The Times survived the General Strike Me in @thetimes www.thetimes.com/article/7390...

Arson, Churchill and unexpected duchesses 100 years ago this week, this is how The Times survived the General Strike Me in @thetimes www.thetimes.com/article/7390...

How @thetimes survived The General Strike Involving Winston Churchill, arson, schoolboys, duchesses and a future PM And a caustic matchbox My piece on the strangest days for the paper of record www.thetimes.com/article/7390...

How @thetimes survived The General Strike Involving Winston Churchill, arson, schoolboys, duchesses and a future PM And a caustic matchbox My piece on the strangest days for the paper of record www.thetimes.com/article/7390...

Have seen a couple on holiday who prove that love is blind but it can still do maths

On April 28 1986, the radiation detector at Forsmark Nuclear Power Station in Sweden would not stop going off Then tests revealed something terrible had happened But not in Sweden 40 years on, here is the story of Chernobyl (Paywall free) www.thetimes.com/article/4b9c...

On April 28 1986, the radiation detector at Forsmark Nuclear Power Station in Sweden would not stop going off Then tests revealed something terrible had happened But not in Sweden 40 years on, here is the story of Chernobyl (Paywall free) www.thetimes.com/article/4b9c...

Chernobyl - 40 years on Our graphic explainer of the disaster is here And it is NOT paywalled What happened at Chernobyl: how the disaster unfolded 40 years ago www.thetimes.com/article/4b9c...

It is 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster @thetimes.com takes you inside the worst nuclear disaster in history And how a cover-up endangered countless lives www.thetimes.com/article/4b9c...

It is 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster @thetimes.com takes you inside the worst nuclear disaster in history And how a cover-up endangered countless lives www.thetimes.com/article/4b9c...

Just had the nicest email about this piece from a reader who said “The beauty of our cathedrals surely lies in their huge spaces, carved not just out of the earth under our feet but also from the sky above - containing features most of us will never see due to their height.”

Raising a very particular mug to #ShakespeareDay

Politicians just seem to have given up trying to explain the world as it is to people. It's a huge problem.

So delighted to hear that our piece last August on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has won an award for excellence from the Society for News Design Huge credit to the team who realised this project so brilliantly! www.thetimes.com/article/e3d6...

Why is St Andrew’s Day never filled with tedious people going “He was Galilean actually”?

Yesterday, I touched the ceiling of Westminster Abbey. Essential work is being carried out on these most rarefied of heights for the first time in 61 years. Affording the most spectacular view of the nation’s spiritual heart. My piece in today’s The Times www.thetimes.com/article/7ddd...

Yesterday, I touched the ceiling of Westminster Abbey. Essential work is being carried out on these most rarefied of heights for the first time in 61 years. Affording the most spectacular view of the nation’s spiritual heart. My piece in today’s The Times www.thetimes.com/article/7ddd...

Day off. Time for a luxuriant shower. Just as I was enjoying a moment of peace after a weekend of solo parenting… a knock on the bathroom door. Mrs B has forgotten that the window cleaner was coming and I had but seconds left before I ended up in my own George Formby song.

I feel the word “unite” is here being subjected to a burden it cannot reasonably be expected to bear

Jesus wept.

My two year-old just opened up The Gruffalo and said “The Gruffalo, by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler!” I thought he was a reading savant until he added “Read by Imelda Staunton”

Tory MPs decline proposition of “summer of sex” In my @thetimes.com diary this morning

Home was where the Bard was - location of Shakespeare’s London house had been found Me in @thetimes www.thetimes.com/article/862c...

Just saw Dracula’s Deliveroo

Is it Swalwell that Ends Well?

Two years ago today. Missed every day.

The Queen’s advice to Liz Truss: “Take your time” In my @thetimes.com Diary this morning

Look, this is a grey squirrel of a solecism and I hate it. The correct expression is ALL MOUTH AND TROUSERS, implying front, bravado, brashness with nothing of substance within. The needful idiom here is ALL GONG AND NO DINNER. Something that promises much but delivers nothing.

Marco Rubio realising he has to move to Avignon and be the Antipope