Hugh Roberts has died from cancer at the age of 76. Among his books were a collection of penetrating articles ...

I had come along in the course of my duties as a hopeless necromantic. I don’t think I have ever believed that ...

The pyramids are so central to the modern view of Egypt, and to Egyptian tourism, that it is hard not to speak ...

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

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

So you thought the spectacle was just smoke and mirrors? Is that why you’re shocked? You didn’t think I would do anything?

My former colleague Nicholas Mostyn writes gloomily that ‘we will likely lose speech, mobility and continence and be beset by ...

America’s official chief diplomat is the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, but so far his activities have been fairly limited.

Mussorgsky’s alcoholism caught up with him before he could finish Khovanshchina. At the time of his death in 1881 ...

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

William Morris wrote with appalling fluency. Composing verse on trains or while sat at the loom, he could turn out ...

Classic’ may not be quite the right word for this scary, messy film – it’s about forms of rage that don’t ...