Slavery is one of the oldest and most persistent institutions of humankind. It was already well established four millennia ...

Full of strokes and blows/ broken, pitifully wounded’, the man, naked, or almost so, stands full frontal, legs and arms ...

When I lived in south London, my Algerian barber used to tell me that he came from Souk Ahras, ‘the home town of Augustine’.

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At nine minutes past eight on the evening of Monday May 26, Merseyside Police did something that no other British police ...

Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir Frankly, finally published today, is already looking like the most ill-advised autobiography since ...

What people on the other side of the pond call “Brand Britain” has taken something of a knock in recent years – especially in ...

Nicola Sturgeon has all the usual things she wants to achieve in her memoir: rumours to scotch, a legacy to spell out, and so ...

Britain’s is growing, albeit sluggishly. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the economy ...

There is a fine tradition of campus novels that stretches from Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited (1945) and Kingsley Amis’s ...

Language, it has been said, is the only true democracy – changed by the people that use it. But as with any democracy, there ...

Oh dear. Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir Frankly was always going to have its detractors, given how divisive a figure the SNP’s ...