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Jean Tirole is a French economist who specialises in regulation, behavioural economics, industrial organisation, finance, banking, and...

Dr Mostafa El Feki is Director of the New Library of Alexandria. He has been a Professor of Political Science at the American University...

Imagine Boris Johnson ordering the bombing of Edinburgh because the Scots voted for independence in a referendum, or the British...

Sylvana Tomaselli is a historian and lecturer in political philosophy at the University of Cambridge, where she is a fellow of St John’s...

Shakespeare understood much about the role of law in society, possibly thanks to his direct links with London’s Inns of Court. The Inns...

Bury [music] so deep under the earth that no sound or echo of it may rise again. —Attributed to the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb[1]   Over...

On 11 September 2001, as I walked to the Rome bureau of  The New York Times , I stopped in a café on the Campo di Fiori to see why a...

auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium, atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant (To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp...

Russia annexed the Crimea and started a war in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, but that wasn’t enough; now the Kremlin intends to...

Since the detection of massive Russian interference in the 2016 American presidential election, there has been a morass of studies...

As a theorist, economist, politician, author, and co-founder of two transnational democratic and progressive movements, Yanis Varoufakis...

I have not read all the tributes that have been made to John Hume since his death in 2020, but I doubt if many—perhaps any—of them have...

Introduction COVID-19 should not have struck us so unawares: similar viruses, SARS and MERS, had emerged within the last 20 years, and...

Christopher A Marinello is an expert in recovering stolen, looted, and missing works of art. A lawyer for over 38 years, Marinello began...

The purpose of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) was to ‘bring rights home’, allowing people to protect their fundamental human rights...

The United Kingdom has experienced two major political crises in the last five years. Brexit and COVID-19 are crises of very different...

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to more than 176 million confirmed cases and over 3.8 million confirmed deaths. These numbers are likely...

Philip Hoffman is Founder and CEO of the Fine Art Group, which focusses on art advisory, investment, and philanthropy. At 33 he became...

Rebecca Salter is a painter. She is President of the Royal Academy of Arts, the first woman in the role. She has a strong interest in...

I. The case of George Gavriel   A recent incident in Cyprus re-ignited the debate about the limits of artistic freedom. George Gavriel, a...

The below is adapted from Fakir Aijazuddin's 2021 book Imperial Curiosity: Early Views of Pakistan, 1845-1906 . Introduction   The...

The recent upsurge of interest in the history of the British Empire has produced a wealth of literature that often presents empire and...

On 9 April 2003, in the immediate aftermath of the fall of Baghdad, in the first month of the invasion of Iraq, a crowd assembled in...

SCENE. Manhattan. Street with jazz club and apartment building on a muggy late summer evening.   The tired leaves on the trees are damp...