The Covid pandemic turned Working From Home into a lifestyle and a talking point — but Working From Anywhere has become popular too and has meant that working life has melded with holidays. Will we ever return from our travels?
Since the 1800s, Finns have turned to music as an expression of national identity and defiance — today that expression has come full circle.
Xi Jinping’s petulant reaction to Nancy Pelosi’s visit seems likely only to encourage more international backing for Taiwan and reinforce demands for formal independence.
Footballing philosophies are central to the national mythologies of the cultures that produce them.
Although his army was far larger and far better equipped than that of his opponents, the Persian King Xerxes’ invasion of Greece was a disaster. Putin and other would be invaders ought to take note.
It’s a pattern repeated in every conflict — displaced people permanently lose their homes to occupiers. But statistics and ‘integration initiatives’ barely hint at the raw human stories of grief and trauma that accompany such losses.
American High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems are wreaking havoc on Russian forces in Ukraine but they are only one part of the battlefield’s complicated tableau.
While wars are endlessly memorialised in the West, the non-narrative and morally complex nature of a pandemic mean it is rare to come across a memorial to its victims, much less a monument recalling the heroism of health workers.
Orwell was no scientific illiterate, but his focus on the moral implications of surveillance society suggest a disinterest in the realities of technology.
Italy today is synonymous with football, but it wasn’t always so — historically, a great variety of bat-and-ball games enjoyed huge success throughout the peninsula — and created famous champions in the process.
Social changes mean there is no clear script in service industry scenarios.
Humans can survive and adapt but it’s tough in extreme heat, as people in places like Egypt have discovered over the ages.
In attempting to deliver a knock-out blow to their enemies, Moscow underestimated Ukrainian resistance and resilience. But since then has Russia really ‘downsized’ the war?
Kate Bush’s 1985 hit has been reborn as the song of summer, and is everywhere from TikTok to the top of the charts as it is discovered by a new generation. The story of how the extraordinary song came into being is fascinating.
Amidst growing unease with Austrian-Hungarian political dominance in the nineteenth century, Ljudevit Gaj, a visionary 26-year old Croatian linguist and writer, laid the foundations for a vision of a single, united, Slavic group.
The recent Jubilee celebrations in Britain have centred around a queen who has shown us the value of a philosophy based on self-discipline, forbearance and moral integrity.
Many Indian philosophies are popular today, but Kali, the vital and existential goddess, stands in splendorous opposition to more placid religious traditions.
Art apologists tell us what to think but not how to look when they label controversial collections.
The burned-out rubble of a centuries-old Ukrainian monastery will likely be a stark reminder of war’s many horrors for years to come.
The Taiwanese are largely united in their avowal of Taiwan as a democratic, more inclusive model that China itself should aspire to. But they are far from united in their interpretation of Taiwan’s history, or how that should shape the island’s future.
Jubilees are a mild method of expressing national pride — an exceptional chance to exhibit effusiveness for the individual occupying the throne.
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