An ocean-going navy is not a workaday public service, like a coastguard or a constabulary. It is a grand project, ...

All the little aliens in the Duane Barry episode are children wearing huge grey heads. Between takes they ran around, playing ...

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Only two daughters of the Tudor dynasty in its three-generation tenure of the English crown experienced the full force of ...

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On the morning of the US presidential election, my twelve-year-old son told me that Trump was going to win: ‘All ...

James Meek talks to Tom about his latest report from Ukraine, where he spent time in Kharkiv and Kupiansk in the east of the country. In Kharkiv, he found a population living in fear not only of the ...

In an episode of the Simpsons from 1995, the evil tycoon Montgomery Burns bribes Krusty the Clown into supporting his entry in a local film competition. When Krusty ...

On 20 January 2025 Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States. At the time of writing, it seems likely that the Republicans will win control of the House as well as ...

Music critic Ian Penman is back with a pioneering book of essays alluding to a lost moment in musical history ‘when cultures collided and a cross-generational and “cross-colour” awareness was born’.