I thought of it again when the Home Office published a report celebrating its ‘UK-wide blitz on illegal working to strengthen ...

Only eight years earlier, Henry IV had deposed his cousin Richard II, who died in custody soon afterwards. Richard’s rule was ...

A few years ago I worked for an organisation that collected donations for large humanitarian agencies such as Médecins Sans Frontières, Amnesty International and Save the Children. My job was to ...

But wait, actually, no. The mother’s contribution is independent of the child’s sex. The child’s sex is determined by the ...

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

It would be a mistake to see the attempt to deport Mahmoud Khalil for his political views in relation to Palestine as ...

On the third morning of his ill-fated occupation of Moscow, Napoleon Bonaparte woke up in the Kremlin to find the city on fire. The isolated blazes set by the retreating Russian armies had spread ...

Two recent books, by Peter Beinart and Rachel Shabi, discuss the response of Jewish communities in the West to the Hamas attacks of 7 October and Israel’s subsequent destruction of Palestinian life in ...

AChinese friend and I have taken to batting words at each other like ping-pong balls. I’m trying to improve my Mandarin and she is curious about Bengali, but some things stop us in our tracks. Rice ...