Months before the Trumpist onslaught on higher education, US universities were rushing to prohibit protest encampments. Why do some ramshackle tents on lawns present such a threat to authority – as ...

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 ...

You did not need to have met Albert Barnes for him to take against you. In late 1927 Ford Madox Ford, then in New ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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