In March 1973, before taking his new play, The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, around the village halls of the Highlands, John McGrath accepted a last-minute invitation to perform it at a ...

Some people convert to Catholicism to answer their doubt, others to give their doubt shelter. Fanny Howe belonged to the latter party. ‘Did I have faith or was it hype,’ she asks in one poem. And ...

Aditya Chakrabortty is the Guardian’ s senior economics commentator. For highlights from the latest issue, our archive and ...

Between 1 May and 31 August, more than twenty thousand laboratory-confirmed cases of cyclosporiasis were reported to ...

Users of the British Library received an email on 21 October with the subject line ‘Transforming your Library’.

The government’s justification for its reform of the courts has shifted from clearing the backlog to modernisation ...