For Europeans, Libya is the closest edge of the African continent: a borderland imagined as both exotic and dangerous, a ...

Proto-Indo-European gave birth to a plethora of modern languages, but there remains a question mark over its origins ...

As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge ...

Even in prison, Belarusian dissident women haven’t given up. The future of the country may still be in their hands ...

I was 14 years old when my Catholic mother took me aside in the adjunct to the back kitchen, rather grandly designated as “The Breakfast Room”, and warned me about the dangers of a “mixed marriage”.

It is the strangest doublethink. As I write, one third of Pakistan is underwater. Recently in Science, a team led by David Armstrong McKay published findings that indicate global warming has already ...

Jonathan Glover is one of the world’s leading ethical and moral philosophers. He is a fellow of both the Hastings Center and the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and teaches ethics at King’s ...

In February, as the pandemic entered its second year of rampage, a trailer for a new film appeared. This in itself was breathlessly exciting. Someone, somewhere was still making movies, and it stirred ...

Odd couple pairings of politicians used to be a thing in British media. Labour’s Diane Abbott and Thatcherite Michael Portillo famously shared a sofa on the politics show This Week, drawing huge ...

A scene from the new Superman film. Courtesy of Warner Bros Pictures James Gunn’s new Superman movie is a deliberately pro-immigrant, anti-imperialist parable, landing in cinemas across the US at a ...

Octopuses are having a moment. So are slime moulds and honeybees. Mushrooms are in vogue. After 250 years of humanity (well, some of humanity…) confidently atop the great pyramid of being, we in the ...

There was a blue notice on the desk. It said: “All police officers wearing plain clothes and all civil staff are required to display identification whilst in this building.” I guessed it was a ...