Occasionally when the phone rang at the London Review offices in the late 1990s it would be the operator asking if ...

Afriendly ghost hovers over The Modern British City, the collaborative project of a crack team of historians of urban life. H.J. (Jim) Dyos died in 1978, still in his fifties, but as the UK’s first ...

The title of this book misses a trick. ‘Stay alive’ doesn’t quite get the Berlinisch black humour of the original: ‘Bleiben Sie übrig.’ That last word also hints at something left over, an unlikely ...

Bad magic attracts bad money. Brion Gysin had a preternatural instinct for the fluctuations of the art market, ...

If Joyce’s politics were hard to decipher, it was partly because he concealed his Parnellism behind something of ...

This concept of subjecthood soon applied in England’s infant colonies, including in America, where, after the Revolution, it ...

Harry Redknapp thinks the England team should have an English manager. I think that we benefit from some outside wisdom. No English club manager has ever won the Premier League. On trial for tax ...

Would the Founding Fathers recognise the modern United States as the republic they declared in 1776? The nation formed from Britain’s North American colonies has become the most powerful and ...

We may have mixed feelings about the title of Steven Spielberg’s new movie, Disclosure Day. Doesn’t it sound a bit legal? How close is ‘disclosure’ to its apparent synonyms ‘revelation’ and ‘exposure’ ...

My friend Jawad Ali, a Palestinian American lawyer, was at his daughter’s graduation last month when he got a ...

James is joined by Richard King, Rory Scothorne and Andy Beckett to makes sense of the devolved and local election results last week and consider what the collapse of old party loyalties and the rise ...