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The recent spate of political violence in the United States, as well as elsewhere, is thereby not a novelty. Indeed, the only mild surprise is perhaps that there has not been more of it. In Europe, ...

A problematic side-effect of the shift away from in-house sex work and towards independent escorting—a change driven by the ease of advertising yourself on the internet—is that many sex workers lack ...

Cillian Murphy, who screen-tested for the role of Wayne/Batman, instead plays another split figure in Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow, the psychiatrist who uses a fear-inducing hallucinogen to manipulate his ...

The anthropologist Julia Lawton’s work in an NHS hospice highlights the isolating nature of death. Lawton gives a painful and vivid account of the death of a woman called Annie. Annie had initially ...

Since launching in 2017, it has gained huge popularity with journalists and the public. Alan, Lionel and Hamish discuss what makes it fundamentally different to other social media sites, including the ...

As the world focuses its attention on Israel’s war with Iran, our situation in Gaza worsens. Here, safe food aid has vanished, markets have collapsed and only two means remain for getting food: either ...

She called for help, and a young female doctor wearing a hijab, Dr Falak Naqvi, began asking for his medical history. (It subsequently turned out that Sutherland had had a vasovagal episode, or common ...

Since 13th June, Israel has launched strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, assassinated scientists and commanders, and bombed infrastructure. Iran has responded with ballistic missiles and drones.

Brian Cox isn’t short of a few quid. Decades of performing for stage, TV and film, including Hollywood hits Braveheart, The Bourne Supremacy, X-Men 2 and, not least, as the tyrannical Logan Roy in HBO ...

These are strange days for songwriters. The straightforward desire to write music, play it live, perhaps record some songs, is tangled by labels and publishers and marketing teams, by social media and ...

Israel has been warning about Iran’s destabilising role in the Middle East for decades. During much of this time Tehran posed a formidable threat to Israel’s security, especially through the actions ...