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.

The Queen Mary University of London branch of the University and College Union, of which I am co-chair, hosts a ...

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 version of Khovanshchina that Mussorgsky left behind when he died was as messy as the history it depicts. He began working on the opera in 1872, the bicentennial of Peter the Great’s birth. For ...

Colombia produced a record 2600 tons of cocaine in 2023 and at least a third of it passed through Ecuador – ...

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

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 ...

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

The Queen Mary University of London branch of the University and College Union, of which I am co-chair, hosts a webpage, UK HE shrinking, that lists redundancy and closure programmes at UK ...