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Was he pushed?
Robert Maxwell’s last two days are covered in great detail in this new book
Land and sea: the global reach of Britain’s armed forces in the nineteenth century
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the reach and organisation of Britain’s armed forces in protecting and expanding the British empire
Who are the People’s Tribunal?
A body calling for the revision of school textbooks should bear closer scrutiny
China wolf bait
Chinese propaganda plays on the manifest faultlines of American society
Spare us the pronouns, Sandman
The more you play along, the harder it is to distance yourself from the fallout later
Lots in translation
As the winner of the International Booker Prize is due to be announced today, ASH Smyth talks to poet, translator and judge on this year’s panel, George Szirtes
Stonewall’s Ratner moment
Stonewall has become that dangerous thing: an organisation with power and resources floundering for survival
Torn in the USA
Purpose, identity and social status, how this book reveals the three things lacking on the shop floor at Amazon
A series of sharp transactions
Anne McElvoy on how LBC branch out into podcasting and American podcasters bid for their share of British ears