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It has been called Belgium’s ‘golden generation’ but there is a reason why the country produces such an unusual number of star players. In conversation with Bob Browaeys and Steve Lawrence, Adam Bate discovers how exactly Belgium have managed to…
The image appears before us like something out of a bad dream. He is seated behind the Resolute desk, his Chiclet teeth exposed in a rictus of extreme jollity. She is standing slightly behind him, considerably more sombre. In…
“What, art thou mad? Art thou mad?” Falstaff demands of Prince Hal, in Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Part 1.” “Is not the truth the truth?” The joke, of course, is that he has been lying his head off, and the prince…
Every photographer has a give-and-take relationship with her subjects. Wendy Ewald has more give than most. Since 1975, the American artist has been entwining photography, activism, and education in a series of collaborations that upend our prevailing ideas of authorship…
Manchester United are believed to be interested in West Ham’s Marko Arnautovic after Jose Mourinho travelled to Austria to watch the £40million forward, the Daily Mail says. The United boss is said to want to strengthen his attacking options, but…
For half a century, researchers have pondered how gene drives found in nature could be repurposed to combat mosquito-borne illnesses. In 1960, the biologists George Craig, William Hickey, and Robert Vandehey proposed fighting illnesses carried by the Aedes aegypti mosquito…
