The main component of cigarette filters is a plastic, cellulose acetate, and trillions of butts are discarded into ...

D onald Trump ​ likes to tell us that ‘tariff’ is ‘the most beautiful word in the dictionary’. He does not remind us that the word comes from the Arabic ta’rif, or tha ...

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

During the curtain call for the closing performance of Verdi’s Il trovatore at the Royal Opera House on 19 July, ...

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

Preliminary data published in 2021 strongly suggested that testing positive for Covid was linked to a traumatic ...

Tareq Baconi’s memoir, Fire in Every Direction, is due in November.

An Anglo-American audience is a mixed blessing for an Irish artist. Pro: you get their money. Con: their opinions, too. The Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap have exploded in popularity since last year’s ...

I met the great Iranian novelist Mahmoud Dowlatabadi in 2006. We had the same publisher, and through them he sent me a message inviting me to tea at the Azadi Hotel in northern Tehran. At one point he ...