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

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

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

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 ...

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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 ...

The Mont Pelerin Society was set up in 1947 with the aim of ensuring that the apparent triumph of freedom over fascism in the Second World War should instead be understood as a defeat. Inspired by its ...