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Occasionally when the phone rang at the London Review offices in the late 1990s it would be the operator asking if ...

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Harry Redknapp thinks the England team should have an English manager. I think that we benefit from some outside wisdom. No English club manager has ever won the Premier League. On trial for tax ...

Would the Founding Fathers recognise the modern United States as the republic they declared in 1776? The nation formed from Britain’s North American colonies has become the most powerful and ...

My friend Jawad Ali, a Palestinian American lawyer, was at his daughter’s graduation last month when he got a ...

His was the name on the front cover of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, several issues of which I had recently picked up ...

I n her Clarendon Lectures ​ , given at Oxford in 2023 and recently published as Poetry’s Nature (Oxford, £25.99), Susan ...

In 1848, the US seized the northern half of Mexico, from California to New Mexico, and imposed American law and ...