The moment they step on court most of them become nervous wrecks. They lie about line calls and bicker over the score; if ...

British generals and politicians keep warning that the UK needs to be ready for imminent war or – in the government’s ...

Alejandro Éder, the mayor of Cali, asked last week when Colombia had gone back to 1989. On Saturday, 7 June, in ...

Peter Talbot has worked throughout the Middle East for a number of multinational companies.

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Laila Soueif never normalised her son’s incarceration. Through three arrests and three trials she fought for him in the courts, in legal depositions, appeals, marches, protests. Then, on 29 September ...

The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...

Nathan Fielder loves an elaborate plan. In the TV show that made his name, Nathan for You, the Canadian satirist ...

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One way of thinking about fascism is to see it as historically specific: a reactionary mass movement produced by the economic and social chaos that engulfed Europe after the First World War. Fascism ...