If international law suddenly did not exist, what difference would it make? The conduct of Russia and of Israel, among many other countries, currently seems uninhibited by legal norms in general and ...

The problem is that I already feel permanently guilty about owning too many books for my very small cottage. My passion (or should I say addiction?) goes back to my first life, in the Soviet Union, ...

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 ...

My encounters with Alfred Brendel The master pianist died recently, aged 94. Even into that old age, he was constantly, excitedly making new discoveries ...

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 ...

The number of rebels on the government’s disability benefit overhaul has now reached a point where passage of the plans depends on ministers winning some of them back. The thrust of the emerging charm ...

Over the last 20 months, in quick succession, Israel has subdued its enemies on all sides. Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Putin-backed Assad regime in Syria, and now Iran’s revolutionary ...

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 ...

For a man who has had “a very busy year”, Gabriele Finaldi is remarkably poised when we meet in his modern office nestled behind thousands of years of priceless masterpieces. As director of the ...

The antithesis of trickle-down economics is education In our unequal society, not all of us will inherit wealth—but we can all learn ...