In this ‘found poem’ for Remembrance Day, Andrew Motion stitches together the words of several generations of shellshocked soldiers from the first world war to the present
Doctors, historians and other experts have documented the effects of shellshock – thanks to them, we know that the term covers a multitude of ailments, and is the result of far [...]

An unprecedented coalition of scientists, companies, celebrities and organisations spanning the cultural and political spectrum will today commit to slashing their carbon emissions as part of an ambitious campaign to tackle global warming.
The 10:10 campaign, which will be launched at London’s Tate Modern this afternoon, aims to bolster grassroots support for tough action against global [...]

The author’s confession of attempted rape is liable to eclipse everything else we know about him
In yesterday’s Sunday Times John Carey described how, in the course of researching his forthcoming biography of William Golding, he came upon the novelist’s own admission that he had once tried to rape a 15-year-old schoolgirl. Golding himself was just [...]