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It is generally assumed that this disease-control technique goes back to the 1840s, but it’s actually much older.
Food can be a great way of breaking out of the confines of lockdown.
Hailing Christo as a ‘genius’ misses the point and diminishes the work of his wife and co-creature Jeanne-Claude.
People are turning to tarot while in lockdown as they search for clarity about love, work and life in such uncertain times.
The US president is punishing Twitter for using a factcheck to point out that one of his tweets is incorrect.
For a handful of French writers, the best fiction they wrote was their life story.
It may not have been Britain’s finest hour, but was it Fleet Street’s?
COVID-19 ‘news fatigue’ had set in with the UK public, but then the prime minister’s chief advisor changed all that.
This more equitable approach might bring the prize closer to Turner’s original vision of his legacy.
The process of coming to terms with a loss is central to these films, which are aching and inventive renderings of complex feelings and moments.
More and more people in the UK have been going out of their way to avoid news over the past couple of years: first with Brexit, now with COVID-19.
Surely, it can’t be fun to watch others play games you can play yourself? The hundreds of hours people spend on live-streaming platform Twitch would suggest otherwise.
COVID-19 has hit the film industry hard, but some enterprising film-makers are already plotting ways to cope with the ‘new normal’.
What do you do when you find something amazing you didn’t expect, and there is no budget in your grant to investigate it?
From the Black Death to COVID-19, there have always been those who think good Christian practice will save them from death.
When two of Britain’s most influential voices clashed over allied bombing of Germany, Orwell took an unusual line.
Police officers put themselves and their families in harm’s way in order to stop crime and protect us. But who protects them?
With the number of declared ‘non-believers’ growing worldwide, researchers sought to discover what beliefs the irreligious turn to when times are tough.
The British public must believe that the right people are being rewarded. Giving a knighthood to Captain Tom Moore is a step in the right direction.
I entered this world expecting a fight for acceptance in a dog-eat-dog enclave of hyper masculine brutality. I was wrong.
The plants a Roman chose could say a lot about the person they were.
An audio version of an in depth article on the history of solitude.
Most people believe the government was wrong to stop publishing international comparisons of COVID-19 death tolls.
Street artists offer us momentary respite from the psychological weight of the global crisis.