In a dilapidated building, two rebel archivists collect items from bulldozed sites around their crumbling city, in a desperate attempt to preserve memories of their rapidly vanishing home. Outside the ...

Those who hoped to curtail plastic production—and the health risks associated with the stuff—were disappointed. Oil lobbyists, less so ...

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s legal texts are section 19 of the Public ...

This is a review of a book I haven’t read. Hardly an unusual circumstance for book reviews these days—but, in this case, I was not able to acquire a copy. Earlier this year, Edinburgh University Press ...

It is, it transpires, the Great Unmentionable. Parliamentarians will discuss war and peace as easily as urban chalk streams, endangered bats, driven grouse shooting or neon signage. But there’s one ...

“What makes the unbearable bearable is each other.” Writer and palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke used that phrase to describe what she learnt from one family’s decision to give the heart of their ...

Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a naive belief that the World Wide Web would improve the standard of public discourse. In the area of law, for example, the notion was that direct and free ...

Media Confidential is back for Season 3! Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber take a dive into the world of media. What—and who—drives it? What do they get right... And what do they get wrong? This week, ...

As the Second World War beckoned in 1939, the director of London’s National Gallery, Sir Kenneth Clark, came up with a plan: to commission a handful of carefully chosen artists to document life on the ...

I am about to begin a new post as professor of religion and society at King’s College, London. I see this privileged role as more than a transition from one institution (the University of Edinburgh) ...

Seeing Chaïm Soutine’s The Little Pastry Chef (circa 1927) for the first time did not just take my breath away, it knocked the air out of my body. Displayed alongside Leon Kossoff’s sculptural London ...

“The only direction Britney gave me was that she wanted to die in the video,” said fashion photographer David LaChapelle of the instructions he received for his video of her 2003 single “Everytime”.