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

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

The Queen Mary University of London branch of the University and College Union, of which I am co-chair, hosts a ...

Mathieu Kassovitz’s​ film La Haine is regarded as a classic in many circles. ‘Classic’ may not be quite ...

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

Admirers of Morris the revolutionary have shared his uncertainties. George Bernard Shaw thought Morris’s late-life addiction to scribbling prose romances a lowering hobby – why not take up making ...

My former colleague Nicholas Mostyn writes gloomily that ‘we will likely lose speech, mobility and continence and be beset by excruciating pain – but no doctor will ever give us a terminal diagnosis.’ ...

I asked Raji Sourani of the Palestine Centre for Human Rights if it was true that Gazans can hear the difference ...

Director and screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz on adapting Deborah Levy’s Hot Milk for the big screen, in conversation with Gaby Wood, chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation and a regular ...

The Queen Mary University of London branch of the University and College Union, of which I am co-chair, hosts a webpage, UK HE shrinking, that lists redundancy and closure programmes at UK ...

On one level, Mansfield Park is a fairytale transposed to the 19th century: Fanny Price is the archetypal poor relation who, through her virtuousness, wins a wealthy husband. But Jane Austen’s 1814 ...