The lavender scare

In the oppressive heat of his cell in the Mont-Valérien military prison west of Paris on 31 August 1898, Lieutenant-Colonel Hubert-Joseph Henry wrote a despairing letter to his wife, drank half a bott

The Anglo-American state vs the universities

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Helen Joyce recounts the Kafkaesque story of how she was secretly logged on police records as a criminal

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The strong social norms of Britain’s working class helped generations of immigrants integrate. But today’s fractured society makes that far harder, with worrying implications for the future