Every day, multiple times a day, I need to stop briefly to unwind my thoughts and unburden my heart so that I can refocus and ...

Dominic Sandbrook is speaking about Gordon of Khartoum. He lowers his voice to a reverent whisper, leans into his microphone and tells me of “an imperial hero, an adventurer, who ended his days on the ...

Let us start with what is good about the unofficial Council of Europe meeting and statement to “rebalance” the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). What is good is that it is that the expressed ...

Palantir has acquired key UK government contracts, promising to make government more effective. But Peter Thiel’s controversial company has also worked with the US government and ICE on deportations ...

Let’s accept that someone at the BBC made a clumsy error in editing some clips of Donald Trump addressing the crowd on January 6th 2021. And let’s acknowledge ...

Parents call toddlers tyrants, and for good reason. They rule by appetite and tantrum, and their subjects—us—live in permanent negotiation with irrational power. My youngest has long since graduated ...

On a weekend trip to Brighton, three friends and I are watching some standup comedy in a small, hot room. We’re almost the only people there, and the comedian picks us out and asks how we know each ...

In the last year, the United States has transitioned from flawed liberal democracy to competitive authoritarianism. In this new regime, institutions as diverse as universities, law firms and news ...

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s legal texts are section 19 of the Public ...

“LinkedIn doesn’t know me anymore,” someone complained to me recently. “What do you mean?” I asked. She explained that the platform has replaced the old “recommended jobs” section, which used to show ...

Talking about racism and antisemitism can get you into trouble, as Diane Abbott knows well. The MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington has been suspended from the Labour Party for a second time for ...

Its owners do, however, have one problem. “That overflow pipe,” said Dawn Farnworth, who established By the Wye with her husband, Steve, five years ago. “It never just trickles out, it gushes out.