Andrew Seaton’s first book, Our NHS: A History of Britain’s Best-Loved Institution, has been shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize.
Ara Darzi released his report on the English National Health Service last month. To no one’s surprise, he finds ...
On 10 March 1993, Dr David Gunn was shot dead by Michael F. Griffin, an anti-choice zealot, outside the Pensacola Women’s Medical Services clinic. A year later Dr John Britton was shot dead along with ...
A judge in Georgia recently struck down the six-week abortion ban. But total or near-total bans are still in place ...
The Broadway cinema in Prestwick closed in 1966. It was converted into a bingo hall, then a squash court and ...
Blair never owned a mobile phone while prime minister and barely knew how to send an email. At the same time, he ...
Your browser does not support the audio element. By the end of 1895 Oscar Wilde’s life was in ruins as he sat in Reading Gaol facing public disgrace, bankruptcy and ...
Abu Rayhan al-Biruni and Ibn Sina illustrate the region’s cosmopolitanism and ingenuity. While being grounded in ...
Andrew O'Hagan and Deborah Friedell return to the Republican National Convention. They explore second day's theme, Make America Safe Again, and discuss how this convention compares to the last one ...
On Friday, 27 September, we felt the whole of Beirut shake. A huge plume of smoke was visible across the city.
The final report of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry established that the fire on 14 June 2017, which killed 72 people, was the ‘culmination of decades of failure’. Every death was avoidable, and every ...
When Israel bombarded Beirut on 27 September, killing hundreds of people, the BBC headline was ‘Beirut rocked ...