It's no easy farming cotton in Africa.

I think Orwell would have warned against a long-term military presence in conquered nations.

More than 50 years after his death, we still miss his keen eye and analysis

How the other 0.0000001% live

Her widowhood was long, after Richard was killed in a car accident in 1975, but she never thought of replacing him. They loved each other.

Mildred Loving, law-changer, died on May 2nd, aged 68

The world has lost an irreplaceable champion of liberty

The British could be arrogant and paternalistic, but they gave Hong Kong what mattered: good governance

The prime minister wants to expand army training in schools

Skip breakfast for a daughter, eat up your cereals for a son.

The Malthusian heresy re-emerged in the early 1970s, the last time food prices shot up.

The pessimistic parson and early political economist remains as wrong as ever.

The genetic diversity of Africans probably exceeds that of the rest of the world put together

A major social issue of the 1890s about which Tolstoy had significant and strong views was the relationship between sex and love.

One of the most compelling issues of the last decade of the century was the growth in revolutionary activity.

In Resurrection Tolstoy underlines not only the theological theme of love and salvation, but also the social issue of the 'people' which dominated the second half of the nineteenth century in Russia.

The significance of this moment is marked by its intertextual relationship with the Prolog.

Everybody lived for himself alone, for his pleasure, and all the talk about God and righteousness was deception.

The climactic moment of resurrection follows this same pattern.

The issue is not simply some past sin against 'Love', but his failure to love right now.

The story of Prince Nekhlyudov opens with his awakening to the recollection of his call to jury duty.

This story of recovery of an original romance provides Tolstoy with a vehicle to tell a theological tale wherein the quest for the redemption of an orignal sin results in the uncovering and release of an original love, a genuine resurrection.

Tolstoy's novel is also unique in that it is surrounded by a peculiar set of frames.

The first impulse to return to novel form came with a story he heard from his lawyer friend Koni in 1887.

A Modern Saint and Sinner Why the Che myth is bad for left

It is not a passing aberration in the working of democracy: it is the hole in its heart.

He is the model of villainy, but Hitler came to power through the ballot box.

Is fat that bad? Love your greengrocer. Eat your broccoli.

The modern idea of happiness was an invention of the Enlightenment.

the incorruptibility of these innocents abroad makes them worthy of some degree of nostalgic respect.