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In the month since the ceasefire on 8 April, Trump’s rhetoric has swung erratically between talk of total victory ...

‘I’ve had no income at all,’ Mitra said. ‘If I didn’t live with my family, I don’t know how I would manage.’ Instability has become a permanent condition. Under such circumstances, trust between ...

Patrick Radden Keefe’s London Falling is a book about a city but it’s also a book about families and shows that ...

Far out along a county road from pole to pole of yellow pine catenaries bear the load, the twisted pairs of tip and ring connecting ear to anything. I hear you humming through the line. In blazing ...

Charles III’s state visit to the US occasioned a good deal of commentary either celebrating the ...

Whether or not the story is true, an appeal to hasard seemed to resonate with those who lived through the dislocation of the post-revolutionary years. Demobilised soldiers and rural immigrants swelled ...

Julian Barnes’s​ latest book is full of broken rules. In the second chapter we’re invited to look back at his early novel ...

Mansfield refused to go along with the fashion for more generous grading, earning the nickname – in which he revelled – ...

The successful passage of the 2026 Tobacco and Vapes Act into law is a major milestone on the journey towards ...