Chances are that every biologist now has an ome to go to. This suffix, first introduced in the genome (the sum total of all an organism’s genes), can now be found attached to just about every...

I am now officially a university student (indeed, the last time I went into a shop, all I bought was chocolate biscuits), and I love it. Politics at A-level was fantastic, but being able to study...

Cities, thinks the political theorist Benjamin Barber, can save democracy. In his new book "If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities", Barber argues that only cities are...

A women-only train carriage in India © Ajay Tallam   Challenged at a party a few months’ ago as to why I think we still need feminism in Britain, I mentioned a nasty encounter I'd had...

Scott Turow is the author of ten legal thrillers, including "Presumed Innocent" and his latest novel, "Identical". He is also a practising attorney in Chicago, the city that is the model for the...

David Runciman is professor of politics at the University of Cambridge and a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. His latest book is "The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in...

It’s that time of the month again. Twice, I have booked an appointment, and, twice I have wimped out and cancelled. But, it’s only a matter of time before I crack and succumb to a perceived need...

It may come as a surprise that not all physicists share in the excitement surrounding the Higgs boson, boosted further by the award of the physics Nobel Prize to Peter Higgs and François Englert,...

The American political journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann had a huge success in 2010 with "Game Change", their gripping account of the 2008 US presidential election (it was published in...

Lawrence Freedman is professor of War Studies at King's College London, where he is also vice-principal. He is the Official Historian of the Falklands campaign and, since 2009, has sat on the...