A letter to The Guardian last week pointed out that another pope had ‘ducked’ the now 422-year-old challenge of becoming Sixtus VI. The new pope,
History has a funny way of repeating itself. Take the following quote about this sceptred isle: “At this time nothing went right for this nation, neither in the south nor in the north.” You could
You can always tell that journalists are getting worried about regulation when they start dredging up stirring quotations about the ‘freedom of the press’. There
Introduction, by Abdel Razzaq Takriti As part of his current visit to Palestine and Israel, President Obama has stated that there "must be a strong and secure Jewish state". Viewed through a longue durée prism,
Over the last few months I have been thinking a lot about a rebellious cleric. No, it wasn’t one of the so-called Muslim hate preachers
Five hundred years ago, on Friday 4 March 1513, the cardinals of the Holy Roman Church gathered in conclave. Among them was the Englishman Christopher