When I moved in with my wife, whose childhood Christmases were more conventional, I failed to convince her to buy a similar ...

Turkey has declared itself a defender of Palestine. But now the people are demanding action and the state is crushing dissent ...

There is huge variation in how we age. While some 70-year-olds still run marathons, others are living with multiple ...

Beirutis may be helping each other, but international aid is still urgently needed in Lebanon. With winter approaching, the ...

Effective altruism has suffered a blow, but the extreme ideas surrounding it have infiltrated some of our most powerful organisations ...

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Christopher Brookmyre is a crime writer and has published several bestsellers and was winner of the 2006 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction.