Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force ...

War amputees are a common sight in Odesa; I’ve had several rides from Bolt drivers with prosthetic limbs. The local athletes ...

Its funding structure meant that Cannes was originally described as a ‘state festival’; invitations were sent out by the ...

There’s a pleasing Cheshire usage that Garner uses throughout his books, plunder to mean ‘ponder’, and as far as he’s ...

I SUPPORT PALESTINE ACTION. Come and get me, bully boys and girls! I think we can start taking a leaf out of The Life of Brian: I propose a new group, to be called Action for Palestine: let's get that ...

The Canongate Wall is a feature of the Scottish Parliament building in Holyrood, Edinburgh. Designed by Soraya ...

During a parliamentary debate on the Terrorism Bill in 2000, MPs asked whether the legislation could be used to proscribe Greenpeace as a terrorist organisation. The group had, in recent years, ...

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

During the 1930s and into the war years, the Mail’s readers regarded refugees, in Hatherley’s neat formulation, as ‘a series ...

Jonathan Healey is a historian at Oxford. The Blood in Winter: A Nation Descends, 1642 is out now.

On 6 December 2000, during a snowstorm, Joan Didion was sitting in the waiting room of an office in Manhattan reading a copy of National Geographic. She was lost in an article about polar bears and ...