The stark reality is born home by the realisation that the extra theatrical fact of the author’s actual death is inevitably central to its powerful message, surely made even more telling today, with ...

GERMANY deported dozens of Afghan men to their homeland today, the second time it has done so since the Taliban returned to power and despite the regime’s dire human rights record. German authorities ...

In telling Flynn’s story, Mary Anne Trasciatti also provides a history of the repression of the US left during Flynn’s lifetime: she discusses the Smith Act, the McCarran Act, and the prosecutions of ...

Chile and Peru were two other countries in which Britain established rail networks in order to transport Guano and Saltpetre, the first an agricultural fertiliser and the latter a vital ingredient of ...

BOWLER-HATTED eccentric, brolly-toting mystic, compulsive iconoclast and self-destructive drinker. These were aspects of Erik Satie I encountered as a teenager when, enthralled by his music on the ...

BRAZIL’S former President Jair Bolsonaro has been ordered to wear an ankle monitor, authorities said today, in a move he ...

RENEWED clashes broke out overnight between Druze armed groups and members of Bedouin clans in southern Syria on Thursday ...

MYANMAR’S military has recaptured a strategic gateway town from rebel forces after nearly a year, state-media reported on Thursday. Nawnghkio, which sits on a major motorway linking central Myanmar to ...

It is not known if the Right Honourable Sir Keir Starmer KCB KC MP has ever written poetry, but perhaps his strange, strangulated, Beckett-like speeches represent a kind of robot-poetry for the AI age ...

JOHN SWINNEY has pledged to “turn the heat up” on the UK government to allow a second referendum as part of his latest strategy to achieve independence. Writing in the National newspaper today, the ...

FACING India at Lord’s might bring back some unhappy memories for England all-rounder Charlie Dean, but she has been able to ...

Better Go Mad In The Wild has claimed the top prize at the 59th Karlovy Vary Festival. A documentary by Slovak director Miro ...