The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...
When I was at nursery school in Beijing in the 1970s, there was a teacher who seemed to find tireless pleasure ...
Peter Mandelson is a case study for the way the Westminster ecosystem protects its own until it is forced, by ...
My friend Mahmoud called to check on me at the beginning of January. We hadn’t been in touch for a while. I told ...
Two thousand miles north-west of Rio de Janeiro, the Javari Valley is a swathe of the Brazilian Amazon larger than Scotland and accessible only by boat or helicopter. Its ecological riches and ...
The story of archaeology in Egypt usually begins with the Napoleonic expedition of 1798-1801 and Jean-François Champollion’s decipherment of hieroglyphs in 1822. That’s the European side of the story: ...
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...
In 2023, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution to ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ...
Keir Starmer has made several eye-catching appointments to his new government from outside Parliament, continuing the practice of his predecessor, Rishi Sunak, who appointed David Cameron as foreign ...
Rule by sheer violence,’ Hannah Arendt wrote, ‘comes into play when power is being lost.’ She continued: ...