Andrew Seaton’s first book, Our NHS: A History of Britain’s Best-Loved Institution, has been shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize.

Ara Darzi released his report on the English National Health Service last month. To no one’s surprise, he finds ...

A judge in Georgia recently struck down the six-week abortion ban. But total or near-total bans are still in place ...

Derrida opened it by reading out the ‘famous passage’ that was to serve as the ‘matrix’ for the entire series: Kant’s attempt ...

On Friday, 27 September, we felt the whole of Beirut shake. A huge plume of smoke was visible across the city.

The Broadway cinema in Prestwick closed in 1966. It was converted into a bingo hall, then a squash court and ...

Blair never owned a mobile phone while prime minister and barely knew how to send an email. At the same time, he ...

On 10 March 1993, Dr David Gunn was shot dead by Michael F. Griffin, an anti-choice zealot, outside the Pensacola Women’s Medical Services clinic. A year later Dr John Britton was shot dead along with ...

Pankaj Mishra joins Adam Shatz to discuss The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing’s formally brilliant and startlingly frank 1962 novel. In her portrait of ‘free women’ – unmarried, creatively ambitious, ...

Andrew O'Hagan and Deborah Friedell return to the Republican National Convention. They explore second day's theme, Make America Safe Again, and discuss how this convention compares to the last one ...

Abu Rayhan al-Biruni and Ibn Sina illustrate the region’s cosmopolitanism and ingenuity. While being grounded in ...

Acourt summons arrived in December, alerting me that I had been selected for ‘special jury service’. An accompanying letter explained that the trial would be held at the court for the District of ...