In the more fortunate and vastly different condition of life under civil government, the ideal of independence had become a ...

My former colleague Nicholas Mostyn writes gloomily that ‘we will likely lose speech, mobility and continence and be beset by ...

America’s official chief diplomat is the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, but so far his activities have been fairly limited. Instead, the role of principal US emissary is currently filled by the ...

The Queen Mary University of London branch of the University and College Union, of which I am co-chair, hosts a ...

I asked Raji Sourani of the Palestine Centre for Human Rights if it was true that Gazans can hear the difference ...

Admirers of Morris the revolutionary have shared his uncertainties. George Bernard Shaw thought Morris’s late-life addiction to scribbling prose romances a lowering hobby – why not take up making ...

Colombia produced a record 2600 tons of cocaine in 2023 and at least a third of it passed through Ecuador – ...

John XXIII, the pope who initiated the council in 1962, described it as an aggiornamento, a ‘bringing up to date’, an attempt ...

If the British government is to be believed, only one civilian has been killed by its armed forces during its air ...

The version of Khovanshchina that Mussorgsky left behind when he died was as messy as the history it depicts. He began working on the opera in 1872, the bicentennial of Peter the Great’s birth. For ...