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There’s often a traffic jam in front of the Battle of Britain window in Westminster Abbey and I recently found…

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The Founding Fathers may have modelled America on Ancient Rome, but they would have found the ersatz gladiatorial spectacle Donald…

Newcastle University is advertising for a Director of Academic Advising, which will offer guidance that is ‘inclusive, compassionate, and genuinely…

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When it comes to foreign policy, Donald Trump is neither hawk nor dove. He’s a dealmaker who plays differing sides…

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It is now retrospectively acknowledged that great harm was done by the refusal to investigate serious crimes and dangerous mental…

What are the circumstances in which it is right to smash up a building? When might one justifiably destroy an…

Last week’s headline in the New York Times was obfuscating: ‘In the UK, a Violent Cycle: Hateful Attacks, Right-Wing Agitation…

The Damascene moment in my personal Brexit journey came not when my pen hovered over the referendum ballot on 23…

When his plan to ski hundreds of miles up the frozen River Lena fails, Charlie Walker grows increasingly alarmed by his hostile reception in Siberia

In richly poetic prose, Robert Macfarlane evokes the ways and wiles of birds, from the ‘thinker’ razorbills of Newfoundland to ocean-crossing whooper swans

An ambitious, controlling matriarch will do anything to curry favour during the Cultural Revolution – even to the extent of deliberately harming her vulnerable young granddaughter

Roderick Bailey pays tribute to the highly mobile, tight-knit detachments that revolutionised military medicine and saved thousands of soldiers’ lives in the second world war

What caused the devastating house fire that killed a bestselling children’s author, leaving her son and daughter – the stars of her books – suddenly orphaned?

As long as the US government refuses to disclose its voluminous UFO files, rumours will intensify about ‘a secret that people have been killed to preserve’

The grotesque posthumous lynching of a homosexual by a frenzied mob prompts Sarr’s protagonist to investigate the shadow world of gay life in Senegal

To read the 15-year correspondence between Camus and the actress Maria Casarès is to experience a vertiginous roller-coaster between transcendent joy and abject suffering

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The choreographic partnership of Sol Leon and Paul Lightfoot has long been celebrated in mainland Europe: a new double bill…

Sad songs hit harder, I find, when their meaning hangs just out of reach. Aside perhaps from the exquisite ache…

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Grim news from gallery-land, where even Manhattan’s mega-blue chips are shedding jobs by the truckload. ‘The market’s fucked,’ one soundbite-handy…

Under the Shadow is a timely drama set in Tehran in 1988 during the Iran-Iraq war. Saddam’s missiles are raining…

In 1911 Duncan Grant’s ‘Bathing’ went on display as part of a design scheme for the dining room of the…

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I ran into James Morrow in the corridor the other day – and he told me that he thought he…

The problem with my gambling, Caroline has always maintained, is not the fact that I nearly always lose. I only…

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Edward Gibbon was troubled by a swelling in his lower abdomen. I have the same condition. ‘Wow. That’s huge,’ said…

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