Charles III’s state visit to the US occasioned a good deal of commentary either celebrating the ...

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Whether or not the story is true, an appeal to hasard seemed to resonate with those who lived through the dislocation of the post-revolutionary years. Demobilised soldiers and rural immigrants swelled ...

Julian Barnes’s​ latest book is full of broken rules. In the second chapter we’re invited to look back at his early novel ...

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The successful passage of the 2026 Tobacco and Vapes Act into law is a major milestone on the journey towards ...

Maritime trade has always had to negotiate geographic bottlenecks: the Suez Canal, for example, or the Malacca Strait ...

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The notion of the Great Composer – the individual genius, whose inimitable music is an expression of a singular ...

‘Iwant a husband who is between sixty and seventy years old,’ announced a Parisian classified ad in 1813. ‘If possible, I’d prefer a former nobleman whose misfortunes, which are regrettably common, ...

S ince ​ 1922, the Labour Party has won in Wales at every general election, and has been the largest party in all of the ...