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Some ideas are too successful for their own good. They take flight from their original context and are capacious to a dangerous degree. The Enlightenment, Richard Whatmore contends in this book, is just such an idea. Well yes, since it appears to describe a state of mind rather than, say,…

From 3D-printed headphones to a museum dedicated to crabs, our panel of experts pick the designs and designers of the year

Miss Nicaragua, Sheynnis Palacios, has won the Miss Universe competition in El Salvador, the first to wear the crown from her country

To mark Black History Month, we asked an all-star panel to tell us who they would celebrate for their contribution to British society

The lives of female authors provide inspiration for a woman who finds herself starting over after divorce

Ruben Östlund’s 2022 film Triangle of Sadness has attracted both praise and criticism as a satire of the world’s rich. Triangle of Sadness follows the familiar plot of a castaway story. A luxury cruise ship capsizes after a disastrous drinking session between the captain (an American communist) and a passenger…

When Rachael Lennon was planning her wedding, she began to question the institution of marriage – was it really for her? Yet in researching it, she discovered wedlock is whatever you choose to make it

Mary Wollstonecraft has had something of a revival in recent years.

Other lives: Theologian based at Durham University who was a pioneer in Christian feminism and in theology and the arts

According to the eulogies and obituaries written at the time of his death in 1791, Richard Price’s name would be remembered alongside figures such as Benjamin Franklin, John Locke, George Washington and Thomas Paine.

Bruce Jones, of Adamstown, is a finalist in the Newcastle Herald Short Story Competition 2023 with this entry, Billy.