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Macron’s dream of a mainly French-speaking planet won’t come to pass, but its invocation implies a new swashbuckling spirit in France

More and more online magazine startups are devoted to in-depth reportage

Blair’s recent speech was packed with darkly flexible terminology. Perhaps the Middle East envoy for the Quartet is owed an ‘intervention’ of his own

The debate we are now having about the effect of constant internet access on memory and creativity has precedents thousands of years old

Back with another multi-stranded, time-hopping epic, the ‘Cloud Atlas’ author says novels can reconcile ‘artistic logic’ with ‘humanistic logic’