Flexible working reduces the likelihood that women cut their hours or leave the labor market after childbirth. The recent BBC report on the pay of its top earners laid bare the disparities between men and women’s earnings. But it should come as no...
Nearing the end of life, for artists, intellectuals and politicians their last hurrah carries a very specific style. Edward Said, the late Palestinian intellectual, was not a natural bedfellow for Arsene Wenger, the French football manager in the...
Jailing returning jihadists among the general prison population presents a worrying source of radicalization in Europe. On July 26, a German court sentenced Sven Lau, a known recruiter of foreign fighters, to more than five years in prison. One...
Even the most sober account of her life and death seems like a fairytale that got out of hand. In March 1982, there was a charity preview of the Lillian Hellman play The Little Foxes at London’s Victoria Palace. The star of the show was Elizabeth...
The convention was a last chance to resolve Anglo-Irish relations peacefully. Why was it lost? On July 25, 1917, the Irish Convention convened in Trinity College to make what would prove be the final, nonviolent attempt to establish relations...
