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Back in 2017, a resident-led campaign chased off planning applications for two gas power plants, one of which was to be built ...
From "The Face" exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery to "Leigh Bowery!" at Tate Modern, young people are fascinated by ...
What else might be happening to my brain as it’s constantly flooded by endless content and information? Vuorre says that ...
As conflict wracks the globe, two exhibitions - "The Family of Man" and "Children's Games" - offer a powerful vision of our ...
Credit: Element5 via Unsplash The Challenges of Democracy and the Rule of Law (Profile Books) by Jonathan Sumption. The theme of Jonathan Sumption’s new book is a weighty one. Across this collection ...
A great malaise is upon us, we are told. Prophets of our time warn of a growing “meaning crisis” in the western world. They preach: in this sickly modern age, wrought by secular liberalism, we have ...
The erasure of Palestinian literature is happening on a number of levels. The Educational Bookshop [in East Jerusalem, which specialises in books on the history of Israel and Palestine] being attacked ...
“Truth’s a menace, science is a public danger,” says Mustapha Mond, the “Controller” in Aldous Huxley’s iconic dystopian novel Brave New World. “That’s why we so carefully limit the scope of its ...
Diarists may be ordinary, but they are perhaps rarely normal. This is certainly the case with George Lucas, an obsessive who seems to have written his diaries in character as an idealised version of ...
The building that was formerly Beaumont College. Credit: PJP O'Sullivan / CC BY-SA 4.0 Educating in Faith: A History of the English Catholic Public School (Sacristy Press) by Mark Cleary. My Jesuit ...