In Britain, the history of public provision is a history of austerity. From the earliest experiments with ‘public works’ in ...

A man dressed in white with yellow butterflies pinned to his shirt is doing a dramatic reading from Cien años. He has a ...

The title of your novel Do Everything in the Dark (2003) comes from Swift: ‘Do all in the dark (as clean glasses, etc.) to ...

There could be dozens, hundreds of similar projects that work with the grain of proletarian spaces, with their existing users. But since any break with Thatcher-Blair-Cameron-Johnson-Sunak housing ...

Yet his legacy remains contested, and obscure to many outsiders. Gülen was born to a modest family in the mountainous northeastern province of Erzurum. Although his birth date is now accepted as 27 ...

Emma Fajgenbaum on Clinton Fernandes, Subimperial Power. Australia’s role as adjutant to British and then American power; ...

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No serious appraisal of the decade has yet been made. The popular after-images of ‘The Thirties’ (in the main, the handiwork of the contrite and the scornful) can be displaced only by scrupulous ...

During this year’s protests against the Eurozone’s austerity measures—in Greece and, on a smaller scale, Ireland, Italy and Spain—two stories have imposed themselves.footnote 1 The predominant, ...