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 ...

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

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

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 ...

In 1958, the French authorities banned Henri Alleg’s memoir, La Question, shortly after it was published. Alleg had been the editor of the daily Alger républicain, already banned in 1955. His book ...

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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 ...

The killing of Palestinians has continued, sometimes surpassing pre-ceasefire levels and accelerating viciously in ...