Professor Nigel Biggar CBE answers questions from the ORB

Finding yourself aboard the Taipei metro, a voice over the tannoy states the station towards which you are heading in clear-cut Mandarin.

In the last twenty years, big budget studio cinema has begun to account for most global box office sales.

Novels about work have become ubiquitous.

Paris was tense on election day. Just outside a polling centre in in Le Marais voters tore down photos of incumbent president Macron.

'Criticism is, in its highest development, simply a mood’.

Rushdie and Shatz merge in their interest in cosmopolitanism and exile, in the fact of finding oneself between identities...

'Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are’.

'Do you suppose any mortal has skill enough to make a butterfly?’

Staging grief is a delicate balancing act.