This is the pseudo-scientific manner in which some people express the strength of their belief that an artificial superintelligence running on computers ...

Slavery is one of the oldest and most persistent institutions of humankind. It was already well established four millennia ...

Full of strokes and blows/ broken, pitifully wounded’, the man, naked, or almost so, stands full frontal, legs and arms ...

Something strange is happening in the world of children’s and YA [young adult] literature,’ writes Adam Szetela, and his horrifyingly compelling book certainly bears that out. It offers a ...

When I lived in south London, my Algerian barber used to tell me that he came from Souk Ahras, ‘the home town of Augustine’.

Nicola Sturgeon has all the usual things she wants to achieve in her memoir: rumours to scotch, a legacy to spell out, and so ...

Language, it has been said, is the only true democracy – changed by the people that use it. But as with any democracy, there ...

There is nobody who finds Gwyneth Paltrow, 52, more interesting than the woman who was a teenager in the 1990s. This was the ...

There is a fine tradition of campus novels that stretches from Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited (1945) and Kingsley Amis’s ...

We all know that life is full of people who try to con us, often starting with a voice on the phone. ‘I’m speaking from the ...

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms’, Winston Churchill once ...

Vice President Vance is currently receiving visitors at an 18th-century Georgian manor in the Cotswolds, an implausibly quaint patch of the English countryside. Petitioners so far have included ...