Despite the ban, more than 160,000 copies of La Question circulated in France, Algeria and beyond. In a preface, Jean-Paul Sartre wrote that Alleg had revealed the brutalising and inhumane structure ...

On 7 November 1965, Henry Solomons, the Labour MP for the constituency, died after a short illness. He had won the marginal ...

Some parishioners morphed into willing Protestants; defiant Catholics – recusants – refused to attend services; other ...

Parry, who died last month, had a business card in the early 1990s that described him as ‘Jonty ...

Schopenhauer has long held the title of gloomiest philosopher in history. He sees human existence not as grand ...

Streptomycetes are soil bacteria that could easily be mistaken for fungi, their cells snaking through the earth in ...

Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status ...

As a backbench opposition MP, Shabana Mahmood called for a ‘general amnesty’ of undocumented workers so they could ‘regularise their status’. Now that she is home secretary, she has proposed the ‘most ...

I am 22 weeks pregnant. During this pregnancy – my fourth; I have two children already and had a miscarriage in February – I have become unduly superstitious, increasingly preoccupied by the idea of ...

Not for the first time, theorists of politics are turning to the unconscious and its strange workings – repression and fantasy, libido and death drive, disavowal and displacement – to understand the ...