In a bonus edition of our defence newsletter, Richard Cockett takes us back to 1066—and the Battle of Hastings ...

I T’S EVERY New Yorker’s lament: the city is full of yellow cabs, except when you really need one. And so, when Curtis Sliwa ...

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Today the marches are smaller and, more importantly, climate policies are being rolled back. The Economist recently called this reversal a “greenlash”, noting that fossil-fuel-driven business-as-usual ...

Each subsequent chapter takes readers to a different graveyard. Her wandering leads her from Cuba to Chile to the Czech Republic. She goes to the grand tombs of Highgate Cemetery in London and to ...

It’s a vocabulary that would sound alien coming from Mr Farage. He thrives on confrontation. Remember when he stood in front of that infamous UKIP billboard showing a long queue of mainly dark-skinned ...

The claim is that all these vices overstimulate the brain’s dopamine system, causing it to become ”less responsive” and leaving people disillusioned and burnt out. A few weeks of abstinence, ...

Whereas many parts of the world that once hosted humming factories gripe about deindustrialisation, New York faces a ...

B EFORE CO-FOUNDING Nvidia, the pioneer of artificial-intelligence (AI) chips, Jensen Huang was a busboy at Denny’s, a ...

The Wallenberg family is currently led by three members of its fifth generation: Jacob, the chairman of Investor AB; Peter, ...

B ryan Follicle, Thought Leader, Serial Founder, Dad, Husband, Son: Don’t let anyone tell you that your dreams are ...

“H ISTORY TEACHES that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap,” argued President Ronald Reagan ...