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When I was at nursery school in Beijing in the 1970s, there was a teacher who seemed to find tireless pleasure ...

Peter Mandelson is a case study for the way the Westminster ecosystem protects its own until it is forced, by ...

My friend Mahmoud called to check on me at the beginning of January. We hadn’t been in touch for a while. I told ...

The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...

In 2023, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution to ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ...

Rule by sheer violence,’ Hannah Arendt wrote, ‘comes into play when power is being lost.’ She continued: ...

After following up a lead from a birdwatcher, Rachel Carson drew a web of connections that led to one of the most influential books of the 20th century. Silent Spring (1962) investigated the synthetic ...

In the wreckage of the neoliberal order they once championed, there are a number of paths available to Europe’s social democrats. Keir Starmer’s Labour has chosen one: a hawkish fiscal policy combined ...

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