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Godwin (4th Estate) by Joseph O’Neill. Joseph O’Neill remains best known for Netherland (2008). Hailed as a Great American ...

Guatemala’s future is on the line, as its new president Bernardo Arévalo battles a corrupt political establishment ...

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Democracy observers were dismayed in January when Meta – owner of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads – announced that it would be ditching its fact-checking system. The company had previously ...

Hopeful Pessimism (Princeton University Press 2025) by Mara van der Lugt Greta Thunberg famously told an audience at Davos, “I don’t want your hope.” What made more sense, she suggested, was for ...

A map of the oldest light in our Universe - aka the cosmic microwave background - as detected with the greatest precision yet by the Planck mission. Credit: ESA and the Planck Collaboration One of the ...

Labour’s feud over child benefits points to a deeper question: how to balance strategy with doing the right thing Labour has tied itself in knots over the two-child benefit cap. Credit: Alamy ...

Graphene. The wonder kid of the materials world. At just one atom thick, this special configuration of carbon burst onto the scene in 2004 after it was first isolated and experimented on by a team at ...

Not everyone is happy with the investigation into whether Boris Johnson misled parliament over whether he broke Covid rules. Some allies of the former Prime Minister have dubbed the process a ...

This year is the 50th anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics for “aperture synthesis”. This is the technique of using several radio dishes in concert to mimic, or “synthesise”, the ...

Photo credit: Bruno Litaldi via Unsplash The Landscapes of Science and Religion: What Are We Disagreeing About? (Oxford University Press) by Nick Spencer and Hannah Waite This is an intelligent, ...