Rather than fight, the Taliban appear to have phoned everyone in the country

Feminist protests put a puritanical limit on the aesthetic quality of nudity

The president’s self-styled straight talking is less honest than it seems

A sampling of mysteries that capture the life and geography of places elsewhere

Dohnanyi is as multicultural as they come — he must be due a comeback

30 years on from the Moscow Coup, Gerald Frost remembers the man bent on bringing down the Soviet Union

Too many books, too little space and the insecurity of renting

The Labour women’s conference doesn’t know what a woman is

Hunting for the pot is now strictly a hobby, but you can fake it, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto

In his tenth diary entry, Dominic Hilton worries that the Argentine capital could become another Miami or Dubai if it were to get its act together