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Sid Caesar’s brand of intelligent laughter – satirical, sketch-driven, character-based, artful – stood out like a. ..

The protagonist of Hall’s latest book is the wind itself. Helm, the only named wind in the British Isles, blows. ..

Recently​ I had an opportunity to check in on the state of American Catholicism. The occasion was a tradcath wedding. ..

Gavin Newsom describes himself as an ‘accidental politician’. Mayor Brown anointed him as his preferred successor, ...

It looks like​ Britain’s long-standing electoral duopoly is coming to an end. Even though Labour won a huge majority in the 2024 general election, the combined vote share of the two main. ..

Any scoring system can be abused once it gets captured. But the fact remains that a scoring system can also be the most. ..

It might be wise not to be too optimistic about Andy Burnham bringing miracles of delivery, and focus instead on his. ..

The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and. ..

Unlike 20th-century communism or fascism, contemporary Russian ideology does not have a clearly articulated manifesto or. ..

Eighty years on, Dead of Night stands as an astute meditation on repression and madness. Time, however, has dulled the. ..

Some Labour MPs​ always had their doubts about the 1998 Scotland Act. According to Tom Harris, former Labour MP for Glasgow South, there was a joke in the Commons tearoom: ‘Line 1, between. ..

Across Tigray, the remains of razed towns are marked with mounds of earth piled over the dead – impressions of war. ..

If historians​ are remembered posthumously, it tends to be for their book titles, while the books themselves gather. ..

In​ 1973, when a Marcel Duchamp retrospective was last staged in the United States, the critic Lucy Lippard declared. ..