Back in 2017, a resident-led campaign chased off planning applications for two gas power plants, one of which was to be built ...

From "The Face" exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery to "Leigh Bowery!" at Tate Modern, young people are fascinated by ...

As conflict wracks the globe, two exhibitions - "The Family of Man" and "Children's Games" - offer a powerful vision of our ...

A great malaise is upon us, we are told. Prophets of our time warn of a growing “meaning crisis” in the western world. They preach: in this sickly modern age, wrought by secular liberalism, we have ...

The erasure of Palestinian literature is happening on a number of levels. The Educational Bookshop [in East Jerusalem, which specialises in books on the history of Israel and Palestine] being attacked ...

“Truth’s a menace, science is a public danger,” says Mustapha Mond, the “Controller” in Aldous Huxley’s iconic dystopian novel Brave New World. “That’s why we so carefully limit the scope of its ...

Diarists may be ordinary, but they are perhaps rarely normal. This is certainly the case with George Lucas, an obsessive who seems to have written his diaries in character as an idealised version of ...

Is there a narcissist in your life? It’s the question posed time and again across countless books, websites and social media posts. How to spot a narcissist, how to handle them, what they want – the ...

My country, the United States, is quite religious, making it an outlier within the developed world. Generally, in nations where wealth and prosperity increase, piety decreases, but we Americans ...

Michaela Community School prides itself on its approach to discipline. At this free school in Wembley, north-west London, children walk the corridors in silence and retrieve books from their bags ...