Spider-Man: Brand New Day' (2026) is amazingly well-directed, well-conceived, well-cast and well-acted. The standout here ...

When the debate over the burqa and other face-covering veils was beginning in Europe, I was among the first to take the ...

Group identity, social status, and a credential-dominated policy establishment have made the climate narrative increasingly ...

Israel's northern horizon is changing, and this time the name causing concern in Jerusalem is not Tehran; it is Ankara.

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Yet another movie with dinosaurs, and yet another movie about ‘suburbia’. That said, the film is actually quite good and has ...

George Orwell was wrong about one important thing when he wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four (published in 1949, his ninth and final ...

The Nuremberg Doctors' Trial taught the world that the greatest threat to medicine arises when doctors subordinate their ...

The war on Iran lacked a unified strategy. It began as a disagreement at the highest levels of American power, where its president, Donald Trump, initially ...

Ikea is also an emblem of ruthless globalisation. I know that for a fact, having attended a seminar lecture on it when I was at university in England in the 1990s. The company uses cheap labour from ...

There was a time when the word ceasefire meant simple things. The shooting stopped, the skies were clear, and silence itself became proof that something had changed. In that older vocabulary of ...

While wearing the hijab and niqab is widespread among Muslims in the West and Russia, authorities in Central Asia have imposed restrictions on religious clothing. Despite having majority Muslim ...