Bishops voted 34-0 to block gay couples from being blessed in standalone ceremonies. At what point do we call this ...

“Should I read Wuthering Heights?” asked my 17-year-old son last week, a rhetorical question, you’d think, given the book-pushing nature of our relationship. Despite being published almost 180 years ...

When Sir Jim Ratcliffe, billionaire founder of Ineos, resident of Monaco and co-owner of Manchester United, told Sky News last week that the UK had been “colonised by immigrants”, he tapped into a ...

It’s mid-morning at Hadrian’s Wall and the Romans have already lost again. Not to the Picts this time, or to the weather, or even to the slow grind of history. But to Lee Anderson. “Now this is what a ...

It didn’t take much. In one corner, a charismatic, manipulative paedophile. In the other corner, two ancient and barnacled pillars of the British state. The House of Lords and the monarchy are still ...

The French new wave—the nouvelle vague in the original—was one of those periodic creative eruptions that changes everything. It was conceived in the screening rooms of 1950s Paris, where a coterie of ...

In this week’s episode of Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel discuss the decline of the Washington Post. Has owner Jeff Bezos just lost interest—and is the Post now losing the readers? And, staying ...

Parliamentary byelections often matter as much for what doesn’t happen as for what does. So far, the coming race in the Greater Manchester constituency of Gorton and Denton is most significant for two ...

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More of the Epstein files have been released—but why now, and what do they really tell us? This week, Ellen and Alona are joined by investigative journalist Peter Geoghegan, editor of the Democracy ...

In many countries, the far right is pushing back on climate action. In the UK, Europe and South America, dangerous demagogues are whipping up confusion and spreading climate misinformation. After ...

It became known as “Dinnergate”—the moment Matt Goodwin, populist professor, GB News frontman and now Reform candidate, realised there really was a powerful cabal running Britain. This is what ...