South Africa wants to introduce an excise tax on alcohol to make sure no alcoholic drink can be sold below a certain price.

The War of the Rohirrim is set some 200 years before Frodo and the Fellowship embark on their quest to destroy the Ring of Power.

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Composer Quincy Jones, who died in November 2024, was a titan of 20th-century American music. So why don’t music majors study his work?

Recent disruption to Britain’s rail network, caused by a fault in its outdated nationwide radio system, was more than just an inconvenience for thousands of commuters. It was a stark reminder of how ...

Insurers in many ways are the face of US health care, which may help explain the public reaction to the murder of an insurance executive.

Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, have earned the nickname of forever chemicals from their extraordinary ability to stick around in the environment long after they’ve been used.

This is the fundamental experience that the graphic novel Shrink explores in its stylistic depiction of the author’s autobiographical experience of being fat. The book opens with the author ...

When’s the last time you saw a pundit pause?

Much has been made of the news that Reform has overtaken Labour in voting intentions in a recent poll. The poll, produced by market research agency Find Out Now, put the Conservatives on 26%, Reform ...

The following is a statement attributable to Stephan Sakalian, head of the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Syria.

The arts are not a nice-to-have luxury. They play a crucial role in the UK economy, and precarious poverty should not be the inevitable lot of an artist’s life.