A stranger has been sending me emails recently. A woman in her eighties who lives in Northumberland. Her messages are full of anecdotes of a life well-lived and reading them is like tripping and ...

Immigration has always been an excuse or accelerant for far-right terrorism. In the 1940s, the right-wing Jewish terrorist group the Irgun engaged in terrorist acts not out of xenophobia, but to ...

Labour likes to portray the sale of political access as a Tory problem. Keir Starmer’s comfort zone is railing against “Tory sleaze” and crony Covid contracts. But Labour is not immune. This week’s ...

He’s officially next in line to the Murdoch empire, but what is Lachlan Murdoch’s story? Alan and Lionel are joined by Paddy Manning, investigative reporter and author of The Successor: The ...

When I was a boy, neo-Nazis threatened to march on Skokie, Illinois, a town with a disproportionate number of Holocaust survivors. Aryeh Neier, then president of the American Civil Liberties Union ...

Polls before last week’s Labour conference showed the party in deep trouble. The first post-conference polls have brought no relief. Ministers are asking two questions (and if they aren’t, they should ...

At the start of the summer, various articles appeared in the press bemoaning the ethnic composition of the population living in public housing in the UK, or even of London itself. I pushed back in a ...

The recently assassinated right-wing activist Charlie Kirk built his celebrity around a table, a sign—“Prove me wrong”—and a formula. On campuses across the United States, he invited students to ...

In June 2024, I visited Israel for the first time since the 7th October Hamas attack and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) assault on Gaza that followed. Since then—at the earliest—I have been appalled, ...

Late in life, the 18th-century French liberal thinker Abbé Sieyès was asked what he had done during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. He replied, “I ...

Hand-wringing about the state of reading is rife. Children aren’t reading, (many) adults aren’t reading and universities are contending with “post-literate” students: freshers who have come of age on ...

“What’s it a picture of?” asked Theo, angry with himself that he had never heard of the painting and knew nothing of the artist. “An execution. One that’s about to happen, and the kneeling man with ...