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Odesa is mostly Russian-speaking and sometimes thought to be more pro-Russian than other parts of Ukraine, but there ...

My goal was just to stay safe in Sudan. But I realised I wouldn’t have a chance to study and started thinking of Europe.’ His ...

Behind this anti-establishment mood, which has rankled in British politics for many years now, lies the nastier ...

Hayek had understood that persuading any society to accept the rigours of capitalist freedom was never going to be easy.

A champion self-advertiser, maven of the brag and the humblebrag, Whitman announces in the first pages of Specimen ...

T errence Malick ​ is the quietest of American movie directors. He gives no interviews; he avoids talkshows and festival appearances; he doesn’t feed us stories of what he was doing and why. For ...

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

John XXIII, the pope who initiated the council in 1962, described it as an aggiornamento, a ‘bringing up to date’, an attempt ...

It’s puzzling, unsettling even, to see ‘free speech’ rearing its head in public debate again, rousing passions which seemed long defunct. Wasn’t the doctrine definitively trumpeted by Milton and Locke ...

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 ...