Noel Malcolm, a former political columnist of The Spectator, the historian of English nonsense verse and editor of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan, has written a book on an arresting subject. Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe gives close and relentless scrutiny to male-male sexual relations in Europe, the Ottoman empire, north Africa and in such dispersed
In light of anti-semitism across the state, legislators in the General Assemby have formed the Jewish Caucus."This is something we have been talking about for a
The world may have come a long way from depicting India as the land of snake-charmers, poverty and hippie havens, but an economically and geopolitically ascendant India still sits uneasily with the West s mind-portrait. One such broad brushstroke has been sections of the foreign media s obsession with India s democracy indicators sliding . This is rich coming from democracies that have changed leaderships faster than Tunbridge Wells turnstiles, or tackled their post-election results by storming their seat of government.