Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November ...
No Kings.’ Instead, it says: ‘Not this one, but perhaps his brother or his ...
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...
Some parishioners morphed into willing Protestants; defiant Catholics – recusants – refused to attend services; other ...
After seventeen minutes the sky cleared. Seventeen minutes of rain was enough to flood the tents of thousands of families.
In The Impact of Labour, Maurice Cowling wrote that politics in the 1920s was ‘fifty or sixty people’ in tension with one another. The Battle of Ideas, which packed out Church House for a weekend in ...
In the autumn of 2013, archaeologists digging beneath the chancel of a ruined church in Jamestown, Virginia, discovered four graves. They belonged to some of the earliest inhabitants of England’s ...
Schopenhauer has long held the title of gloomiest philosopher in history. He sees human existence not as grand ...
From 1819 to 1831, Colombia and Venezuela were part of the same country (Gran Colombia also included Ecuador, Panama and parts of Brazil and Peru). In ‘Me voy Pa’Cali’, Oscar D’León sang: ‘Listen, my ...
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...
Parry, who died last month, had a business card in the early 1990s that described him as ‘Jonty ...