When Keir Starmer this week pledged to the global investors he’d summoned to London that he would clear pesky regulations out of their way, he stood in a long line going back, at least, to the young ...

Listening to Donald Trump, there’s a point when you begin to feel your brain dying. Words don’t come, and sentences will not form; the language simply isn’t up to dealing with the shamelessness and ...

Welcome to our coverage of the 2024 US Election featuring essays, analysis and opinion from Bill Keller, Jill Abramson, ...

Tanni Grey-Thompson is telling me about her concerns with “inspiration porn”—a term she assures me I can safely google. It refers, she tells me, to the way the media talk about disabled people “as if ...

Since 2022, the year that Andrew Tate first went viral online, a spectre has haunted headlines, school playgrounds and children’s smartphones: the rise in anti-feminism among boys. This often-violent ...

Two big comebacks this week—Phillip Schofield and Michael Gove—and who is to say which is the most ground-shaking? One involves confronting “total isolation…and provides the time to battle within his ...

To lead the Conservatives to victory at the next election, the party’s new leader must defy history. Three months ago, the government of the United Kingdom changed hands for the fourth time in half a ...

Alan and Lionel are joined by Yale history professor and leading scholar of Soviet Russia, Tim Snyder. Snyder’s new book, On Freedom, explores the risks to shared freedom in a “post-truth” world. He ...

Much of the UK hasn’t noticed, but an enormous shift could be about to happen in Welsh politics. Soon, Labour may no longer be its largest party. Welsh Labour has been the most successful democratic ...

Some men hate women. And some go online to talk about it. On Reddit, there are whole groups—subreddits—which appear to be dedicated to blaming women for everything. One group called “r/MensRights” has ...

Less than a decade separates Kamala Harris’s candidacy and Hillary Clinton’s unsuccessful 2016 bid to become the first woman elected president of the United States, but it feels as though a generation ...

I can’t look at this particular self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh without thinking about sadness. The heavy, overbearing brow, the way his deep-set eyes turn upwards towards the top of his nose. Never ...