About ten years ago I visited Dioundiou, a village in Niger two hundred kilometres south-east of the capital Niamey, ...

In June, I flew from Santiago to Arica, Chile’s northernmost city. Arica lies on the Pacific coast at the edge of the Atacama desert, eleven miles from the Peruvian border. It is known as the ‘city of ...

The Lviv National Opera opened to the public on 4 October 1900. It has remained open for the last 125 years under ...

On 30 October, days after the largest police massacre in the history of a city infamous for them, which left at ...

Zack Polanski, the new leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, says he wants to replace Labour. That still seems unlikely, but if it were to happen, this is what the early build-up might look ...

In this extract from On Politics, James is joined by former Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane and Daniela Gabor, ...

J.L. Austin was fascinated by many details of language for their own sake, and in 1947 brought together a group of philosophy dons, mostly younger than himself, to pursue these investigations ...

In late 1952, builders working in the Old Court of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, removed two boards from under ...

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Maimonides dismissed it as a forgery. For him, indulging in any corporeal description of God was unacceptable, because it could be proven through the laws of eternal motion that God has no body. This ...