British generals and politicians keep warning that the UK needs to be ready for imminent war or – in the government’s ...

Israel’s codename for its attack on Iran, launched last Friday, was Operation Rising Lion, a pointed reference ...

Can’t you ping elsewhere?’ The question, daubed on the twelve-foot green fences encircling much of Brockwell ...

Didion’s essay ‘On Keeping a Notebook’, from 1966, is where readers first met Quintana, in the year she was born. ‘Although I ...

The moment they step on court most of them become nervous wrecks. They lie about line calls and bicker over the score; if ...

Circular reasoning is normally condemned by philosophers, but in his 1841 essay ‘Circles’, Emerson proposes that not getting anywhere is precisely what we need to do to find out where we already are.

We can feel imprisoned by other people’s versions of who we are, especially if their urge is to blame. On one hand, the Didion-Dunnes were selfish writers who exuded ambition and fragility, but on the ...

Iris Robinson is, at the time of writing, under acute psychiatric care in a Belfast hospital, after a BBC Northern Ireland documentary revealed that she had, at the age of 59, solicited £50,000 from ...

I thought,’ White wrote in his autobiographical masterpiece The Farewell Symphony (1997), ‘that never had a ...

Uganda’s constitution of 1995 entrenched the barrier against citizenship for non-indigenous applicants, who now had to belong to an indigenous group. Schedule 3 of the constitution included a list of ...

Any hope we have of containing the escalating climate crisis depends on getting to net zero, which will mean cutting greenhouse gas emissions drastically in the next few decades. Coal, gas and oil ...

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, or BfV) owes its existence to the Allies. When the Western powers gave the green light for the creation of ...