It would seem obvious that Watson’s priority is to manifest a voice, but this sort of punctuation addresses the eye ...

In May 2023, I resigned as a (part-time) immigration judge after twenty years in the job. It was less a matter of conscience, ...

W here you have ​ a girl and a looking-glass, or – in the case of one of Eley Williams’s short stories – a woman who sees her ...

Six weeks after the start of the Second World War, the British government lifted the colour bar on military ...

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Ara Darzi released his report on the English National Health Service last month. To no one’s surprise, he finds ...

Labour members have long used the party conference to push for a more humanitarian approach to immigration and asylum. In Liverpool this week, however, at the redeveloped docks from which more than ...

Andrew Seaton’s first book, Our NHS: A History of Britain’s Best-Loved Institution, has been shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize.

Abu Rayhan al-Biruni and Ibn Sina illustrate the region’s cosmopolitanism and ingenuity. While being grounded in ...

A judge in Georgia recently struck down the six-week abortion ban. But total or near-total bans are still in place ...

Peter Green died last week at the age of 99. His many books include a Life of Alexander of Macedon, a history of the Hellenistic age, an account of the Sicilian expedition and translations of Homer, ...