Music critic Ian Penman is back with a pioneering book of essays alluding to a lost moment in musical history ‘when cultures collided and a cross-generational and “cross-colour” awareness was born’.

Immanuel Kant was against revolutions. In 1793 he described them as the work of ‘political criminals’ and ‘injustice in the highest degree’. He accepted, on the other hand, that they sometimes turned ...

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In the early 11th century, at Nandana, a fort in the mountains of northern Punjab, the polymath Abu Rayhan al-Biruni realised his dream of measuring the size of the earth. Two centuries earlier, the ...

Unusually for a politician, Tony Blair is an authentic writer, in that he authentically sounds like himself. His post-prime-ministerial memoir, A Journey, published in 2010, was long, discursive, ...

Igrew up in the seaside town of Prestwick, on the West Coast of Scotland. In its heyday, Prestwick was a haven for workers from the shipyards and factories, who would travel ‘doon the watter’ by ...

Andrew Seaton’s first book, Our NHS: A History of Britain’s Best-Loved Institution, has been shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize.

Ara Darzi released his report on the English National Health Service last month. To no one’s surprise, he finds ...

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 ...

A judge in Georgia recently struck down the six-week abortion ban. But total or near-total bans are still in place ...