Shabana Mahmood is in a different situation from previous minority ethnic home secretaries who were accused of ...

Streptomycetes are soil bacteria that could easily be mistaken for fungi, their cells snaking through the earth in ...

The map of Palestine has been shrinking for decades. On 9 October, a ceasefire was declared in Gaza and Israeli forces redeployed to a new ‘Yellow Line’ that cleaves off more than half the territory ...

Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status ...

There is truth in the superstition, medical validation for the old wives and their tales. A country’s maternal mortality rate (worryingly high in the UK) is measured as the number of deaths per ...

I am 22 weeks pregnant. During this pregnancy – my fourth; I have two children already and had a miscarriage in February – I have become unduly superstitious, increasingly preoccupied by the idea of ...

The day before James Watson arrived to deliver the 2013 Michael Davys Lecture in Oxford, I received an email from his personal physician in New York asking me to arrange for him to be seen by ‘one of ...

The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...

From the revelations about Jimmy Savile in 2012 to the gender pay gap debacle in 2017, the BBC was for many years ...