‘love wins’ in greece

The red carpet was rolled out yet again last week, to honour the nation’s real heroes at the Pride of Britain Awards. Taking place at London’s Marriott Grosvenor House in Mayfair, the awards ceremony

While there may have been a glittering array of A-list celebrities at the Pride of Britain Awards last week, it was the magnificent ordinary folk and their extraordinary stories that shone the brighte

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When General Francisco Franco died on 20 November 1975 – 39 years after the start of the brutal civil war that brought him to power – the prospect of a bloodless transition to democracy in Spain appea

Jacob Collier is on stage with the Britten Sinfonia, in a packed-out concert hall. We’ve already been treated to a freewheeling, virtuosic and wildly joyful programme, ranging from Bob Dylan to scat-s

All serious scholarship on ancient Sparta has to be conducted within the penumbra of the ‘mirage Spartiate’, a French term coined in 1933 to describe the problem posed by idealised accounts of Sparta.