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It must have been a pretty formative experience for an eleven-year-old: I can still see myself standing on the west bank of the Mississippi ...

On 11 December 2018, Donald Trump tried to ambush the Democratic Party leaders, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, by turning a photo opp at th...

There’s an entertaining transatlantic argument going on about whether it’s appropriate for black British actors to play African Americans. ...

It’s Martin Luther King day in the United States, a nation which even a man with a dream like his, could hardly have imagined would have a b...

The date comes inexorably closer: in just over a week, on 22 November, we’ll be marking the half century since John F. Kennedy’s assassinati...

It’s so quaint, isn’t it, that Britain continues to be a monarchy? The pageantry, the millennial rituals. And now with a baby too. It makes ...

Certain moments are iconic. And it’s become a received expression to sum them up by saying ‘you’ll never forget where you were or what you w...