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

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

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

Its funding structure meant that Cannes was originally described as a ‘state festival’; invitations were sent out by the ...

Jonathan Healey is a historian at Oxford. The Blood in Winter: A Nation Descends, 1642 is out now.

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

The Canongate Wall is a feature of the Scottish Parliament building in Holyrood, Edinburgh. Designed by Soraya ...

Gulbadan Begum was the daughter of the founder of the Mughal Empire. She is the only Mughal woman known to have ...

British generals and politicians keep warning that the UK needs to be ready for imminent war or – in the government’s ...

In 2004, the House of Lords allowed the appeal of nine foreign nationals against their indefinite detention under the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001. In his opinion, Lord Hoffmann argued ...

During a parliamentary debate on the Terrorism Bill in 2000, MPs asked whether the legislation could be used to proscribe Greenpeace as a terrorist organisation. The group had, in recent years, ...