Charles III’s state visit to the US occasioned a good deal of commentary either celebrating the ...

Whether or not the story is true, an appeal to hasard seemed to resonate with those who lived through the dislocation of the post-revolutionary years. Demobilised soldiers and rural immigrants swelled ...

Julian Barnes’s​ latest book is full of broken rules. In the second chapter we’re invited to look back at his early novel ...

Mansfield refused to go along with the fashion for more generous grading, earning the nickname – in which he revelled – ...

The successful passage of the 2026 Tobacco and Vapes Act into law is a major milestone on the journey towards ...

Britain’s nuclear subservience to the US dates from the 1958 Mutual Defence Agreement ( MDA) between Washington and London: ...

J.H. Prynne has always seemed to me to represent the real potential of poetry, as an art that can encompass ...

Patrick Radden Keefe’s London Falling is a book about a city but it’s also a book about families and shows that ...

In Nayatt School, Spalding Gray played a ‘pedantic schoolteacher’ and the psychiatrist from The Cocktail ...

James is joined by investigative journalists Peter Geoghegan and Ethan Shone to discuss what Peter Mandelson’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein reveals about the vast influence network maintained by ...

Maritime trade has always had to negotiate geographic bottlenecks: the Suez Canal, for example, or the Malacca Strait ...

The word is not the thing. In spoken language a word is a distinctive sound or series of sounds. It does not have a ‘natural’ relationship to the thing it stands for. Ferdinand de Saussure theorised ...