On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British ...

In the last six months human rights officials at both the Council of Europe and the United Nations have written to ...

No Kings.’ Instead, it says: ‘Not this one, but perhaps his brother or his ...

Last week, the US published its new National Security Strategy (one is produced each presidential term; this is ...

Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November ...

In The Impact of Labour, Maurice Cowling wrote that politics in the 1920s was ‘fifty or sixty people’ in tension with one another. The Battle of Ideas, which packed out Church House for a weekend in ...

The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...

The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...

From 1819 to 1831, Colombia and Venezuela were part of the same country (Gran Colombia also included Ecuador, Panama and parts of Brazil and Peru). In ‘Me voy Pa’Cali’, Oscar D’León sang: ‘Listen, my ...

In this first episode of a new strand in the LRB Podcast, host James Butler talks to former Labour MP and minister Chris Mullin, columnist Andy Beckett and journalist Morgan Jones about whether Labour ...

Schopenhauer has long held the title of gloomiest philosopher in history. He sees human existence not as grand tragedy but squalid farce, with men and women writhing in the grip of appetites that are ...