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 ...

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

Classic’ may not be quite the right word for this scary, messy film – it’s about forms of rage that don’t ...

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

William Morris wrote with appalling fluency. Composing verse on trains or while sat at the loom, he could turn out ...

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

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

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 ...

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

T.S. Eliot claimed that he learned his prose style from reading F.H. Bradley, and the poet wrote his PhD on the English philosopher at Harvard. Bradley’s life was remarkably unremarkable, as he spent ...