When tickets for Euro 2025 went on sale last year, UEFA made the usual noises about igniting passion, inspiring the ...

There’s a pleasing Cheshire usage that Garner uses throughout his books, plunder to mean ‘ponder’, and as far as he’s ...

The crux of Daniel Kehlmann’s Director is whether it’s weakness or necessity that makes G.W. Pabst compromise.

Austerity is a choice. The protection of the family at the expense of other ways of living is a choice. The transfer ...

I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with ...

Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force ...

Red diaper babies (as Cora would allow me, I hope, to describe her), and postwar baby boomers (as I almost was), need I think ...

Chuck Berry’s ‘Maybellene’ recently turned seventy. Recorded on 21 May 1955 in a studio on the South Side ...

War amputees are a common sight in Odesa; I’ve had several rides from Bolt drivers with prosthetic limbs. The local athletes ...

An Anglo-American audience is a mixed blessing for an Irish artist. Pro: you get their money. Con: their opinions, ...

The hope that every fascist is a future liberal or leftist just waiting to escape their present life is a form of ...

Children’s books revisited in later life may disappoint, but they are immune to the embarrassment associated with outgrown toys. Even if their colours have faded, they expanded the world in a way toys ...