Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November ...
After seventeen minutes the sky cleared. Seventeen minutes of rain was enough to flood the tents of thousands of families.
No Kings.’ Instead, it says: ‘Not this one, but perhaps his brother or his ...
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 ...
Schopenhauer has long held the title of gloomiest philosopher in history. He sees human existence not as grand ...
Parry, who died last month, had a business card in the early 1990s that described him as ‘Jonty ...
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 ...
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...
On 7 November 1965, Henry Solomons, the Labour MP for the constituency, died after a short illness. He had won the marginal seat from the Tories at the 1964 general election with a majority of 1181 ...
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