A new book illustrates that far from being pastoral fantasies wasting land, money and energy, they are a valuable cultural export, part of the country’s enduring soft power ...

The root words of snake and serpent mean 'a creeping thing'. Most snake sayings are negative, including a Singlish loan ...

When Aristophanes quotes such tricks of phrase even ... The development of Latin into the language of Cicero and Virgil was gradually and laboriously accomplished under the constant influence ...

In fact, it would be possible to write the story of our Peloponnesian war in phrases of Thucydides ... No one is likely to forget Virgil’s Priam, Tyrtæus’ description of an old soldier ...

The Reds are six points clear at the top of the Premier League table with a game in hand thanks to Darwin Nunez's crucial double away to Brentford Liverpool forward Darwin Nunez celebrates goal ...

Darwin Nunez came up trumps for Liverpool in their win at Brentford on Saturday, and captain Virgil van Dijk recognised the striker's brace will help silence critics for the time being.

Virgil van Dijk is hoping lessons have been learnt by Liverpool from last season’s slip-ups as they tussle it out for four trophies this term. But they crashed out of the Europa League at the ...

Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk has acknowledged that the team have work to do after being beaten by Tottenham Hotspur in the first leg of their League Cup semi-final. The Reds lost in north ...

Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk said his team were lucky to leave with a draw against Manchester United – and insists it could have been much worse had Harry Maguire converted a last-minute ...

Liverpool centre-back Virgil van Dijk is reportedly ‘in talks’ with Saudi Pro League club Al-Hilal over a blockbuster free transfer that’d take place at the end of this season. The Dutch ...

As such, when it was put to Virgil van Dijk afterwards that Liverpool had only won three of their past seven Premier League matches, he could afford a mocking eye roll. "Oh, so are we in crisis now?" ...