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James Stafford: Europe’s Holy Alliance Europe’s Holy Alliance
Undeterred by Napoleon’s brief return to power in 1815, Alexander sought to confirm his status as Europe’s saviour with the ...
London Review of Books17h
Richard II and Henry IV Barbara Newman: Richard II and Henry IV
Only eight years earlier, Henry IV had deposed his cousin Richard II, who died in custody soon afterwards. Richard’s rule was ...
London Review of Books18h
Labour’s Immigration Policy
I thought of it again when the Home Office published a report celebrating its ‘UK-wide blitz on illegal working to strengthen ...
London Review of Books12h
Nigeria after USAID
Nigeria already struggles with inadequate healthcare funding. This year’s budget allocates only 5.18 per cent of ...
London Review of Books8d
On Edward Said and Late Style
On Sunday, 9 March, at Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, the City of London Sinfonia and the London Review ...
London Review of Books7d
Who is Paul Marshall?
A decade ago, the hedge fund manager Paul Marshall was known as a Lib Dem donor and founder of the Ark academy chain. Now, as the owner of UnHerd, GB News and, since last September, the Spectator, ...
London Review of Books7d
‘How life is in there’
The British brought the system of administrative detention to Palestine when they were the mandatory power. According ...
London Review of Books6d
Black Comedy
Schneewittchen, a film by Stanley Schtinter based on a text by Robert Walser, opens with a shot of a man in black lying in a field of snow, supine, one arm thrown out. The scene emulates photographs ...
London Review of Books12d
Nowhere to Run
Juan Camilo Hernández was born in Caldono, in south-west Colombia, in 1977. When he was sixteen he took part in a ...
London Review of Books13d
Fall of the Berlin Firewall
Friedrich Merz, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and soon to be chancellor of Germany, announced ...