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 ...

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

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

Going into the second round of Ecuador’s elections on 13 April, the polls had the centre-left candidate, Luisa González, neck-and-neck with the far-right president, Daniel Noboa. The night before, ...

The version of Khovanshchina that Mussorgsky left behind when he died was as messy as the history it depicts. He began working on the opera in 1872, the bicentennial of Peter the Great’s birth. For ...

If the British government is to be believed, only one civilian has been killed by its armed forces during its air ...

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

Dante Gabriel Rossetti could always cheer himself up by belittling William Morris. At the top of a letter to Jane Morris in 1868, he scribbled a crest for ‘The Bard and Petty Tradesman’ in which ...

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