A shifting array of hundreds of reproductions showing the art and architecture of two millennia, carefully selected ...

I have studied mankind and know my heart; I am not made like any one I have been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence; if not better, I at least claim originality, and whether Nature has ...

The conflict in West Papua may be the world’s most unequal war: raids on military bases have improved the West ...

In the last six months human rights officials at both the Council of Europe and the United Nations have written to the German authorities to remind them of their obligation to protect, rather than ...

More than three hundred British Library workers are on strike this week. They are demanding an inflation-proof pay rise, restoration for last year’s shortfall and an ‘end to non-payment of alternative ...

Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November a very long billboard depicting crowds in sackcloth and red hats trimmed in white, ...

‘If George comes to Chicago,’ the mayor said, ‘I’ll crack him in the snoot!’ The ‘George’ was King George V. The mayor in 1927 was Big Bill Thompson, who ran the city in cahoots with Al Capone. He was ...

In The Impact of Labour, Maurice Cowling wrote that politics in the 1920s was ‘fifty or sixty people’ in tension with one another. The Battle of Ideas, which packed out Church House for a weekend in ...

From 1819 to 1831, Colombia and Venezuela were part of the same country (Gran Colombia also included Ecuador, Panama and parts of Brazil and Peru). In ‘Me voy Pa’Cali’, Oscar D’León sang: ‘Listen, my ...

After the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, announced the government’s new policies for ‘Restoring Order and Control’ in the House of Commons yesterday, one MP after another stood up to commend the ...

Zack Polanski, the new leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, says he wants to replace Labour. That still seems unlikely, but if it were to happen, this is what the early build-up might look ...

John Heartfield was forced to leave Germany in 1933. Even before the Nazis put him on their hit list, his art had caused controversy. In 1928 he designed the cover for a book about the mores of the ...