If all the world’s a stage, argues Indira Ghose in A Defence of Pretence: Civility and the Theatre in Early Modern England, ...

Sociology, the scientific study of human society empowers us to dissect and analyse complex human behaviours and predict how human beings behave in context after consistent observation of patterned ...

Since when did absurd pretence drive global politicking and policy? The problem is, this pretence is criminal. It is time we called it so. Economics, geopolitics, war or peace — the aforesaid complex ...

Babies recognise pretence and around half of children can pretend themselves by 12 months, new research has found. The study, led by the University of Bristol, shows for the first time how children’s ...

Barrister Austen Morgan’s learned, provocative and entertaining case for the creation of a codified constitution has a big flaw. But first, the highlights. Pretence opens with a lively romp through ...