I don’t suppose Donald Trump or Keir Starmer saw the row of flags, black, white and green with a red triangle, on ...

Israel’s allies are still buying time for Israel to change course or come to a deal with Hamas over how many trucks ...

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What does it mean for a jug to be a jug? Or for any thing to be called a ‘thing’? In his 1950 lecture ‘Das Ding’, Heidegger attempts to cajole his audience away from their everyday way of seeing the ...

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With the proscription of Palestine Action early in July, the question of what support for a terrorist group means has become urgent. Very few people in Britain supported al-Qaida; many more support ...

Jenny Turner is a contributing editor at the LRB, for which she first wrote in 1991 (on James Kelman and Janice Galloway). She has written more than sixty pieces for the paper since then, on subjects ...

The first true lab rat was the Wistar rat, a strain specifically bred for biomedical research. In his “rat universe” experiments, John B. Calhoun placed large numbers of these rats in a controlled ...

Orsanmichele market had many features of the pre-electronic exchange model, with its standardised measures and pricing, set hours and regulatory oversight, and the beginning and end of trading each ...

A lot of contradictions are laid out in Michelle de Kretser’s Theory and Practice, and one’s tolerance for graduate students – clearly infantilised by their milieu, despite being in their mid-twenties ...