Israel picks between 'secular democracy or theocracy' in election, chess master Garry Kasparov says

"Just as Abraham Lincoln observed that the government could not persist 'half slave and half free,' Israel cannot go on half ...
iheart

Defense of Poesy-Sir Philip Sidney

"Defense of Poesy" by Sir Philip Sidney is a passionate and eloquent treatise that defends the value of poetry and the arts, arguing for their moral and educational significance. Sidney articulates ...
The Indian Express

India miss golden chance to catch Uzbekistan after Round 8 draw vs Azerbaijan; Savitha bails out women’s team

R Praggnanandhaa and D Gukesh stepped up to deliver once again as defending champions India bounced back from their painful loss to Uzbekistan, edging past England 2.5-1.5 in Round 7 of the 2026 Chess ...
The Australian Financial Review

‘My job is to assume things get worse,’ says our new defence chief

In the top right-hand corner of a secluded conference room at the Canberra headquarters of the Department of Defence sits a small, innocuous-looking white box. It’s placed above eight adjoining TV ...
The Guardian

Britain’s Slave Traders by William A Pettigrew review – the inconvenient truth

This revelatory history shows just how deeply embedded slavery is in the foundations of modern Britain One tedious aspect of Britain’s post-imperial melancholia is the number of amateur historians who ...