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From India to Britain, we have always managed to get in the way of our own inventiveness
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The pillars of American democracy, not just the viability of the ex-president’s campaign, are in the dock
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This weekend, we're marking the Queen's Platinum Jubilee with a spirited discussion …
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The hardware of the Russian invasion may well be operational but the software of its narrative has seized up
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Duke of Edinburgh’s complementary role helped the British monarchy survive
Simon Schama and Bonnie Greer on the British monarchy and its future
US Capitol mayhem was the culmination of years of winking at violence
The spy fiction master ventured well beyond the shadows of espionage to become one of the most perceptive and enduring writers of his age
LBJ, MLK and what the dramas of 1965 can teach a polarised nation
Is it finally Joe Biden's time? Anne Applebaum, Edward Luce and Simon Schama discuss
How the passionate creativity of the Romantics helped us to reimagine politics — and why we need their spirit now more than ever
The final season in the series completes this affecting chronicle of our uneasy times
Simon Schama visits the upstate sculpture park and finds spectacular work that evokes the industrial and the natural
Changing attitudes towards racial injustice will affect who we consider tolerable and who intolerable to memorialise
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