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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’re finding the hype and doom about artificial intelligence bewildering, you’re not alone. Hundreds of billions are pouring into technologies which, if you believe Bill Gates, could solve ...

Given how central journalists like to say their profession is to keeping the public informed, you might think that relentless retrenchment in the industry over the past decade would leave people ...

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 ...

The enemies of social security are not letting a good crisis go to waste. In his FT column this week, George Osborne’s biographer Janan Ganesh argued that “Europe must trim its welfare state to build ...

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 ...

As a sex worker, I would never let a client buy me a house ...

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 ...

This book tells the tale of Keir Starmer’s ruthless ascent from the backbenches to Number 10. The protagonist, however, is not really Starmer himself—but his right-hand man, Morgan McSweeney, who, ...

With naked self-interest back in vogue, Meta wasted little effort disguising its prostration at the feet of King Donald. Attempts to spin the tech giant’s desire to evade scrutiny and regulation were ...