Obituary

George Shultz, a long-term Secretary of State of the Reagan administration, has died at the age of 100

Following Carlos Menem’s recent passing, David Smith remembers his relationship with the bold and cunning politician

Paul du Quenoy offers an appreciation of the late scholar and free speech advocate James R. Flynn

The former director of the British School at Athens, who died last month at the age of 103, had a productivity in his old age that was both rare and admirable

Cinema, theatre and the world will be poorer for no longer having Christopher Plummer as a part of them

For all his apparently endless faults, we have just witnessed the passing of one of music’s true geniuses

Sheldon Adelson, one of Trump’s largest individual donors, has died; leaving his wife to continue their high-stakes political influence over America and Israel

As the remnants of Israel’s left implode and the hard-right strengthens further, Israel needs voices like Khamis’s more than ever

John le Carré’s voice of old-fashioned English authority was one acquired through merit and bearing rather than birth

Babs was a uniquely British actress and comedian whose true worth, thankfully, was realised comparatively early in her long career