Benjamin Franklin

US Politics: What it means to be white is liable to change but it need not cause unrest

Trump told those of us who don’t like what’s happening in the US to get out. A fine idea

An Irishman’s Diary: The bard’s ‘cracker’ was somebody who talked big

There have been so many announcements in recent years of the death of the inventor of predictive text

Wild Geese: Anne O’Riordan is senior managing director at Accenture Life Sciences

Anton Mesmer combined his ideas with a flair for the dramatic that orthodox medicine found distasteful and the public found intriguing

Cantillon: 13 years since urgent call for ‘full review of pension coverage’

Harald was adviser to four consecutive presidents and daughter Pippa followed him into the White House

The star whose hits include Blueberry Hill and Ain’t That a Shame sold more than 110 million records

Miranda Green: Some companies are unhealthily reluctant to allow internal debate

Alone in northern Europe, Ireland remained Catholic following Luther’s revolution

Perhaps with our new-found awareness of the fragility of forecasts, we can use them in more productive ways

Out of work and out of sorts, but charity raffle presents an opportunity