He was caught before he could act, but he was not the only person planning a last-ditch attempt to hinder a war which many considered illegal. A few days earlier, Margaret Jones and Paul Milling had ...

The conduct of Russia and of Israel, among many other countries, currently seems uninhibited by legal norms in general and individual sanctions in particular. The United States has just heavily bombed ...

The answer is that in the mid 1920s, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, a trustee of Sir John Soane’s Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, was inspired by the mausoleum when he designed the base for the K1. His ...

The Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils honours reporting that investigates the social fabric of the UK—covering topics such as poverty, housing, education, disability, welfare, and the ...

If that makes it sound as if Alfred regarded the Russian composer as akin to a dangerous Class A drug, then it would not fall far short of the truth. “A fine pianist but an overrated composer,” he ...

This week’s guest on Media Confidential is Anthony Scaramucci, financier and former communications director at the White House. He now co-hosts The Rest is Politics US podcast. Anthony argues that the ...

A moment halfway through Ezra Klein’s and Derek Thompson’s recent book Abundance reveals something of their approach to building a net zero world. In 2023 a gasoline lorry exploded, causing ...

I don’t want to adjudicate on that political argument here, nor do I want to write about the potential consequences for poverty, which I’ve covered before. Instead, I want to make a few, very specific ...

In the wake of Iran’s latest defeat, Trump will doubtless seek to reinforce US and Israeli engagement—and his family’s personal wheeling and dealing—with the UAE, Qatar and strongman Mohammed bin ...

Have you ever wondered where Andrew Tate came from? This week, Ellen and Alona are joined by journalist James Bloodworth to discuss his new book Lost Boys: A personal journey through the manosphere.

The enormous gamble that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken with his citizens’ lives seemed to have paid off when the United States this weekend joined Israel’s military operation ...

Finaldi, 59, knows his place of work well: at the helm since 2015, he was the curator responsible for its Spanish collection between 1992 and 2002, before he swapped London for Madrid to become deputy ...