Thursday night saw the premier of ITV2’s latest attempt to replicate the runaway success of their summer smash hit Love Island. Their latest formula preserves the combination of toned and tanned young people soaking up
We tend to assume that the struggle for civil rights is a modern invention and that, before the Enlightenment, the world was ruled by despotic kings and emperors. And yet, democracy as we know it
I awoke this morning to find that ancient Egypt had made a sudden and unexpected appearance in the American presidential race. BuzzFeed had published an article containing a video from 1998 of the Republican politician
On the morning of 2 May 1643, crowds of Londoners assembled to watch the destruction of a beloved, though controversial, landmark that had stood in the very centre of the City, Cheapside, since the thirteenth
With only a month to go, Christmas is already appearing all over shop windows and adverts. At the same time, across the country, people are engaging in another annual pastime: remarking that the commercialisation of
So England are finally out of the World Cup and some of us will perhaps all breathe a sigh of relief and return to normality. But this time we may have been less enthusiastic about the