Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November ...

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 ...

No Kings.’ Instead, it says: ‘Not this one, but perhaps his brother or his ...

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

After seventeen minutes the sky cleared. Seventeen minutes of rain was enough to flood the tents of thousands of families.

Qesser Zuhrah, Amu Gib, Heba Muraisi, Jon Cink, T Hoxha and Kamran Ahmed are on hunger strike. All are on remand in British jails awaiting trial for alleged actions either at Elbit Systems UK’s Filton ...

Schopenhauer has long held the title of gloomiest philosopher in history. He sees human existence not as grand ...

Parry, who died last month, had a business card in the early 1990s that described him as ‘Jonty ...

On 7 November 1965, Henry Solomons, the Labour MP for the constituency, died after a short illness. He had won the marginal seat from the Tories at the 1964 general election with a majority of 1181 ...

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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 ...