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TWELVE YEARS AFTER William the Conqueror sailed across what is now known as the English Channel to invade England...

The Queen? The Queen never been fuggin walk around here! Uncle Jimmy Pike, Walmajarri artist[i] IN 2002, BUNDJALUNG songman Archie Roach...

ANYONE INTERESTED IN power must visit Persepolis. Its ruins stand defiantly in a parched valley in southern Iran, the...

By Michael Wesley

IN A LONDON hotel, two prime ministers sit down to breakfast. One is tall, lean, white-haired and speaks in...

By David Fettling

THERE IS A condition described by Maya Angelou in the first instalment of her memoir I Know Why the...

By Fred D’Aguiar

WHEN THE GUARDIAN’S international editor, Anthony Hartley, visited Amsterdam in 1958, he was immediately struck by the quiet confidence...

By Stuart Ward

We will make better decisions on all the great issues of the day and for the century to come, if...

By Jenny Hocking

IT IS TAKEN as a universally acknowledged truth in Western democracies that a strong rule-of-law tradition fosters stability and...

By Godfrey Smith

SOME FIFTEEN YEARS ago, a group of Pakistani women embarked on an experimental journey that was to become a...

By Urvashi Butalia

SHE HAS THE most recognisable face in contemporary Western history and she’s almost within my reach. The longest-reigning British...

and the bones are begging to be let loose with their drums and handbells, with their tales of the sea at...

By Gaiutra Bahadur

UBUNTU IS A word that makes me cringe. You might also know it as obuntu or unhu. It comes...

By MK Suubi