Months before the Trumpist onslaught on higher education, US universities were rushing to prohibit protest encampments. Why do some ramshackle tents on lawns present such a threat to authority – as ...

I had come along in the course of my duties as a hopeless necromantic. I don’t think I have ever believed that ...

In the more fortunate and vastly different condition of life under civil government, the ideal of independence had become a ...

You did not need to have met Albert Barnes for him to take against you. In late 1927 Ford Madox Ford, then in New ...

My former colleague Nicholas Mostyn writes gloomily that ‘we will likely lose speech, mobility and continence and be beset by ...

So you thought the spectacle was just smoke and mirrors? Is that why you’re shocked? You didn’t think I would do anything?

William Morris wrote with appalling fluency. Composing verse on trains or while sat at the loom, he could turn out ...

Classic’ may not be quite the right word for this scary, messy film – it’s about forms of rage that don’t ...

Wadi el-Jarf lies two hundred kilometres south-east of Cairo on a pristine stretch of the Red Sea coast. It dates from the time of the pharaoh Sneferu, the father of Khufu, builder of the Great ...

Homosexuality: do we really have to talk about it? Earl Winterton, aged 71, introducing a debate in the House of Lords in 1954, apologised for bringing forward ‘this nauseating subject’. In his youth ...

America’s official chief diplomat is the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, but so far his activities have been fairly limited. Instead, the role of principal US emissary is currently filled by the ...