All TV programmes—all fiction of any kind, I guess—have to reckon with the problem of when to give the viewer the answers. Questions hook, answers satisfy. Once satisfied by an answer, how to keep the ...

At the end of 2024, the Good Growth Foundation (GGF) polled thousands of Britons about their attitudes to growth. Cut to the chase: “Voters do not trust that a growing economy will improve their ...

On 20th December 2024, six people were killed and 299 injured when a car was driven into crowds at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, the capital of the east German state of Saxony-Anhalt. The modus ...

Among the bookworms who browse the fiction shelves of Waterstones, say, or Foyles, the person most likely to end up buying a novel written in English is, research tells us, a 64-year-old woman. When ...

Young people aren’t consuming news like their parents did. Alex Mahon, CEO of Channel 4, joins Alan and Lionel to discuss how journalists can earn the attention—and the trust—of a generation Gen Z ...

What explains it all? How are you making sense of the turmoil one man has unleashed on the world? How, in the space of five short weeks, have we come to the pass where our staunchest ally now attacks, ...

Fearful of divine retribution for slavery, Thomas Jefferson remarked that he trembled for his country when he imagined that God is just. Some observers today are also trembling. They perceive Donald ...

On the day Russia and the US began peace talks without the presence of Ukraine, Kemi Badenoch was appearing at the right-wing Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London, alongside ...

I value good law: rooted in expertise, guided by compassion and designed to serve and protect those it governs. That is the approach taken by the cross-party committee of MPs examining Kim Leadbeater ...

Is this a gaming column? A film one? Or a theatre one? Normally, I’d keep such editorial ruminations to myself—but, in this case, they’re kind of the point. For Grand Theft Hamlet, which has just ...

Emmy Noether is responsible for an idea so important that it ranks alongside Charles Darwin’s concept of evolution by natural selection as a central and unifying principle in science. It made possible ...

This article is part of a series from countries that have experienced an authoritarian turn from democracy. Access the rest of the symposium here When I was a student in Budapest at the turn of the ...