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Ara Darzi released his report on the English National Health Service last month. To no one’s surprise, he finds ...

A judge in Georgia recently struck down the six-week abortion ban. But total or near-total bans are still in place ...

On Friday, 27 September, we felt the whole of Beirut shake. A huge plume of smoke was visible across the city.

The Broadway cinema in Prestwick closed in 1966. It was converted into a bingo hall, then a squash court and ...

Andrew Seaton’s first book, Our NHS: A History of Britain’s Best-Loved Institution, has been shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize.

Abu Rayhan al-Biruni and Ibn Sina illustrate the region’s cosmopolitanism and ingenuity. While being grounded in ...

Labour members have long used the party conference to push for a more humanitarian approach to immigration and asylum. In Liverpool this week, however, at the redeveloped docks from which more than ...

Peter Green died last week at the age of 99. His many books include a Life of Alexander of Macedon, a history of the Hellenistic age, an account of the Sicilian expedition and translations of Homer, ...

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 ...