In 1848, the US seized the northern half of Mexico, from California to New Mexico, and imposed American law and ...

We chase away the dark. Since the industrial revolution humanity has been progressively shortening and lighting up the night. Cheap LED lights now turn suburban gardens into fairgrounds and industrial ...

In 2022, he said that there would be a major war that would change the face of the Middle East if Israel continued its colonisation of East Jerusalem and restrictions on the use of the al-Aqsa mosque, ...

Ignorant beauty still takes pains Although the world is cruel, and getting crueller. And if the moon gets fuller Like a tick ...

I wanted to visit La Guajira to learn about the US airstrike on Venezuela but also to see genuine resistance. Under attack from the US, who better to turn to than a people who have preserved their ...

I have no journalistic ability,’ Malachi Whitaker wrote in her memoir, And So Did I (1939), ‘and could not tell a good story ...

Before 2014, the SNP consisted mostly of old-timers, bonded by their outsider status and shared history. After the referendum ...

Busby acknowledges the importance of anthologists and editors in championing overlooked or underrepresented writers, ...

Andy Burnham will soon become the UK’s seventh prime minister since 2010 and will face many of the same problems that defeated his predecessors, not least the UK’s stubbornly weak economy. To dissect ...

T he epigraph ​ to Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel is taken from Jung: ‘Loneliness does not come from having no people about ...

On 1 June, after Vickrum Digwa was sentenced for the murder of Henry Nowak, the victim’s father made a statement outside Southampton Crown Court. ‘When police arrived, Henry was lying on the floor, ...