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So now we know what happens when you sneer at voters as ‘garbage’. When you view them as ‘deplorables’. When you treat them ...

The candidate who said Americans should be “unburdened by what has been” is now a has-been. The irony will be lost on her.

On 18 May 1781, Tupac Amaru II’s rebellion came to an abrupt and grisly end. Seized by Spanish forces, the Peruvian ...

There are many reasons to remember Quincy Jones, who has died aged 91 in Los Angeles. Let me deal with just one. Jones was ...

In recent years, Australian government policy has increasingly linked access to essential benefits for families with ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says Net Zero is necessary to combat the ‘existential threat’ of climate change at a cost of ...

I would lend you my copy, but the fucker who previously borrowed it still hasn’t given it back.’ Those precise words were uttered to me by an eminent churchman, more in anger than in ...

Publishing is a business. Authors are its brands and books its products. When, as sometimes happens, one of the bigger brands inconveniently dies or retires, there’s an understandable desire to ...

The New Zealand novelist Catherine Chidgey ought to be much more celebrated in this country than she is. Do not be put off by the fact that The Axeman’s Carnival (Europa, £14.99) is narrated by ...

Washington, DC Vice President Kamala Harris finally took the stage at her alma mater, Washington, DC’s Howard University — a day later than anticipated, to deliver a twelve-minute concession speech.

Few women have had more written about them, mostly of a critical, salacious nature, than Wallis Simpson, the American divorcee for whom Edward VIII gave up his crown. Much of the gossip has fed ...