They had not read The Communist Manifesto. They imagined a kindly, soft‑focus socialism without the slightest understanding ...
Can Xue is an oddity in the landscape of world literature. Greeted mostly with bewilderment or indifference in her ...
Unfortunately, Zoe Strimpel has a great point in Good Slut. Why unfortunately? Because as much as I sympathise with ...
It is a book full of heart – frank and confessional – and presents Emin at the zenith of her powers, having survived near-fatal cancer and found new purpose and conviction. She’s back home in Margate, ...
This St David’s Day weekend, I devote this column to a celebration of the world’s most under-appreciated ethnic group.
The semiotics of clothes, especially royal ones, can be fascinating, sending out powerful messages. Think of the jewel-studded, pearl-strewn ...
Nigel Biggar was not an obvious target for cancellation. A New Labourite, a Remainer and a public supporter of ...
It was not, either, as though his royal claims on either side of his lineage were anything but tenuous. He had been born at ...
If you reckon you have an understanding of international politics today, you probably haven’t been listening properly.
The saga of the rise and fall of the Third Reich could be traced by following events in any one of the countries occupied by ...
In the early 16th century, on the orders of the Doge, Jews were herded en masse from the centre of Venice to the Ghetto Nuovo ...
Among Australian women, One Nation is now the single most popular party, polling at 29%, ahead of Labor on 27% and the Coalition on 21%.