Romania’s pre-eminent living poet was just 17 when her work was banned for the first time. As the daughter of a so-called ...

I’ll take my wine,” said my friend, grabbing her glass, as we rushed out of the restaurant, and flocked into a bomb shelter.

The assisted dying bill drawn up by Kim Leadbeater passed through its second reading in the House of Commons with a majority ...

Those of us who live by poetry look forward, with a famished sort of envy, to a book by Karen Solie. Wellwater (Picador, ...

William Blake was born with suspicion of Catholics commonplace in England. During June 1780, when he was in his early ...

This week we celebrated the feast of Corpus Christi, now rather cumbersomely renamed (for the sake of those who were never ...

I’m sometimes a bit slow on the uptake. Michael Berkeley has been presenting his excellent Private Passions programme on ...

Churches are so much more than concrete, brick and glass; and none more than those created in post-war Scotland. Across the ...

The future of many hospice facilities and care homes is under threat from a “tragedy” can only be avoided by the defeat of the assisted dying legislation ...

The French government overruled incensed conservationists and decided to add a “modern touch” to the restored Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris with six new ...

Pope Leo has appointed the first English-speaking archbishop of his pontificate. Bishop of Sandhurst Shane Mackinlay will from September serve as the Archbishop of Brisbane and Queensland, Australia.

Jeremy Bentham distinguished between what he called “derogatory” and “eulogistic” words, in short between “boo” and “hurray” ...