An honest account of energy history would conclude not that energy transitions were a regular feature of the past, ...

No one who has lived in Britain would contest that Oxfam (and Save the Children, War on Want, Live Aid and the other ...

It’s not news that Trump is a creature of the society of the spectacle. Creature and master, emanation and accelerant. He is ...

The novels weren’t the point. The point of Nan Shepherd was herself. My mother described what a thrill it was to ...

Reagan’s capacity to inhabit and generate legend stemmed from his own impulse to substitute pleasing fictions for inconvenient facts – to the point that fiction replaced factuality altogether.

No doubt, some individuals have always pulled levers behind the scenes to benefit themselves and their ...

When diva worship turns an artist into an icon, everyone ...

Any hope we have of containing the escalating climate crisis depends on getting to net zero, which will mean cutting greenhouse gas emissions drastically in the next few decades. Coal, gas and oil ...

On 2 November 1921, James Joyce wrote from Paris to his aunt Josephine in Dublin asking if it was ‘possible for an ordinary person to climb over the area railings of No. 7 Eccles Street, either from ...

Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, better known as The Golden Ass, is the only ancient Roman novel to have survived in its entirety. Following the story of Lucius, forced to suffer as a donkey until the goddess ...

I always like to say that Iranian cinema emerges out of a thousand years of poetry, and Canadian cinema emerges ...