The fishermen at Porto da Barra agreed that the verdict was historic and celebrated all weekend. They have been in ...

The winners in an autocracy have little in common with the losers, but putting on aviator sunglasses or a leather ...

The idea that France should be shut down by popular consensus, as a protest against the budget proposals of ...

Parker noted a bevy of plays dealing with Prohibition, the ‘Irish question’ (‘what a rough day it will be for the drama when ...

Traditionally, it was the shaman who swallowed or sniffed intoxicating plants as a way of gaining access to the world ...

David Foster Wallace said that he spoke like ‘Jimmy Stewart on acid’ (though Lynch’s addictions were the diner-appropriate ...

Grangemouth opened in the mid-1920s to refine petroleum shipped to the docks from the Anglo-Persian Oil Company’s oilfields: ...

Dread Beat an’ Blood, Johnson’s second book of poems, appeared in 1975. It includes ‘Doun de Road’, which addressed the rise ...

I met Shah Muhammad Rais in Southall on a Friday afternoon in early August. It was the season of heat waves, the ...

Every two years, the UK hosts one of the world’s largest arms fairs at the Excel centre in East London. The ...

Conor Gearty has died at the age of 67. He was a founder member of Matrix chambers and a professor of human rights ...

Many birders spend long days in nature looking for an example of a particular species, and then, on finding it, ...