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

Before the final yesterday I was puzzled as to why Jennifer Hudson was singing the US national anthem: did they think ...

English identity is a funny business: we can be one thing to ourselves and something else to others, and that changes depending on mood and context. During this World Cup – and particularly when DR ...

My friend Jawad Ali, a Palestinian American lawyer, was at his daughter’s graduation last month when he got a call from his sister in the West Bank. ‘She was crying, almost hysterical,’ he said, as ...

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 ...

Calvin’s Case (1608) is, as one of its judges, Sir Edward Coke, put it, ‘magnum in parvo … a matter of great consequence upon a slender subject’. The case concerned whether a Scottish child could ...