Amendment to crime and policing bill will change law to end prosecution of women who terminate pregnancies

Why I can't help loving James Joyce

Exclusive: Letter to PM signed by retired supreme court justices among others says lack of action will imperil international legal system

a mostly-forgotten modernist and a recent favourite of mine

The Years (1937) is one of the least widely read of Virginia Woolf’s novels, a strange blend of the lyrical and the historical novel.

The idea of madness has an influence on the psyche almost equal in scope, if not in type, to mental illness itself.

Relatives who waited agonising week before bodies were found speak of passion that drove Red Crescent workers • Our aid workers were brutally killed and thrown into a mass grave in Gaza. This must never happen again Gaza is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a civilian now that Israeli forces have resumed their military campaign with even more ferocity, but for the first responders who rush towards the wreckage of bombed buildings, the risks are multiplied many times over. The 15 paramedics and rescue workers whose bodies were found last weekend in a bulldozed pit outside Rafah knew they were putting their lives in peril to try to save others, but they could not have been prepared for what awaited them in the early hours of 23 March. Continue reading...