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America’s official chief diplomat is the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, but so far his activities have been fairly limited. Instead, the role of principal US emissary is currently filled by the ...

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

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

In a less frequented corner of YouTube, the late Marxist philosopher G.A. Cohen lives on in a few comic skits. Among the funniest of these party pieces are two diatribes on ‘the German idea of freedom ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...