In April, a UN News story said: “A deal reportedly made by the United Kingdom to send some migrants for processing and relocation to the Central African nation of Rwanda, are at odds with States’ ...

Even in prison, Belarusian dissident women haven’t given up. The future of the country may still be in their hands ...

Peter Adamson runs the Munich School of Philosophy at Ludwig Maximillian University and is author of Philosophy in the Islamic World (Oxford University Press) ...

Proto-Indo-European gave birth to a plethora of modern languages, but there remains a question mark over its origins ...

There is a painting of the late Peter Higgs, the Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist, that hangs in a science building at the University of Edinburgh. It shows him staring out with a pencil in ...

As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge ...

Ecstatic states, the sense of a powerful truth others cannot see, emotions with the force of revelation. Religion and mental illness have a lot in common, says Robin Lawrence ...

Kamila Shamsie’s blazing 2017 novel Home Fire, winner of the Woman’s Prize and longlisted for the Booker, is a contemporary retelling of Sophocles’ play Antigone; an account of radicalisation and ...

Anyone asked to identify the most serious political crisis in the United Kingdom today would be spoiled for choice. Candidates include the disruption of the supply chain, poverty set to worsen as the ...

John Sargeant was raised in the Jehovah’s Witnesses, before leaving as a teenager. He went on to study Economics and Politics at University, and later became involved with the Richard Dawkins Website ...

Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History By Alex von Tunzelmann It is possibly because statues are supposed to be permanent fixtures that they are so susceptible to being rethought or regretted: ...

“Refugee” overlaps with the French words “refuge” and “refugier”, but the route into English starts out with some Latin forms of the word, like “refugium”, a place of shelter. Both in Latin and French ...