Hugh Roberts has died from cancer at the age of 76. Among his books were a collection of penetrating articles ...

America’s official chief diplomat is the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, but so far his activities have been fairly limited.

Months before the Trumpist onslaught on higher education, US universities were rushing to prohibit protest encampments. Why do some ramshackle tents on lawns present such a threat to authority – as ...

The pyramids are so central to the modern view of Egypt, and to Egyptian tourism, that it is hard not to speak ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. In 2013, a group of French and Egyptian archaeologists discovered of cache of papyri as old as the Great Pyramid of ...

I had come along in the course of my duties as a hopeless necromantic. I don’t think I have ever believed that ...

In the more fortunate and vastly different condition of life under civil government, the ideal of independence had become a ...

My former colleague Nicholas Mostyn writes gloomily that ‘we will likely lose speech, mobility and continence and be beset by ...

So you thought the spectacle was just smoke and mirrors? Is that why you’re shocked? You didn’t think I would do anything?

William Morris wrote with appalling fluency. Composing verse on trains or while sat at the loom, he could turn out ...