On 10 March 1993, Dr David Gunn was shot dead by Michael F. Griffin, an anti-choice zealot, outside the Pensacola Women’s Medical Services clinic. A year later Dr John Britton was shot dead along with ...

On Friday, 27 September, we felt the whole of Beirut shake. A huge plume of smoke was visible across the city.

The Broadway cinema in Prestwick closed in 1966. It was converted into a bingo hall, then a squash court and ...

Blair never owned a mobile phone while prime minister and barely knew how to send an email. At the same time, he ...

Abu Rayhan al-Biruni and Ibn Sina illustrate the region’s cosmopolitanism and ingenuity. While being grounded in ...

Labour members have long used the party conference to push for a more humanitarian approach to immigration and asylum. In Liverpool this week, however, at the redeveloped docks from which more than ...

Fredric Jameson died yesterday at the age of 90. He had taught since 1985 at Duke University. His many books include The Political Unconscious, Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism ...

Peter Green died last week at the age of 99. His many books include a Life of Alexander of Macedon, a history of the Hellenistic age, an account of the Sicilian expedition and translations of Homer, ...

Unlike with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 or Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the British media were slow to recognise Israel’s invasion of Lebanon on 1 October as an invasion. The BBC’s ...

The final report of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry established that the fire on 14 June 2017, which killed 72 people, was the ‘culmination of decades of failure’. Every death was avoidable, and every ...

In November 2022, archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Philadelphia, two hours south of Cairo, discovered a clump of papyri in a shallow grave. On one of them were written nearly a hundred ...