Would a young Starmer join the Labour party today? Ellen and Alona are joined by Tom Clark, contributing editor at Prospect, who thinks not. From defending misfit environmentalists to denouncing them ...

The idea that a substantial number of life peers gained their seats without having really deserved them is deeply embedded in the British subconscious. Intermittent reports of a life peerage granted ...

Why is Donald Trump doing this shock and awe on tariffs? Is it because he wants the tariffs? Or because he wants to use them to force deals—and extract payments—from friends and foes alike? He seems ...

And a new US administration has its eyes on Israel-Saudi normalisation ...

In a deep tunnel driven into a granite hillside, a group of soldiers crouch around a heavy field gun. They are in a fortified emplacement on the island of Greater Kinmen, two miles off the Chinese ...

In 2018, while filming an episode of the TV show Who Do You Think You Are? in her hometown of Sarnia in Ontario, Canada, Katherine Ryan got into trouble: she fell in love. Up to that point, many of ...

Michael Longley died in Belfast on 22nd January, at the age of 85. During a career spanning more than half a century, he had composed some of the finest short lyrics in English, addressing a wide ...

The Gaza ceasefire was many agonising months in the making, and mere days after it started on 19th January, as Palestinians and Israelis dared to hope, at last, for some respite, Israel launched a ...

Plans for assisted dying in France have been dragged into the country’s ongoing political crisis. This is a critical week for the new French prime minister, François Bayrou, as he forces through his ...

Alan and Lionel return to answer listeners’ questions on today’s hot topics. With Lionel currently in New York, attention turns to American news coverage. Has US media gone far enough in its coverage ...

Kim Leadbeater has just written to all MPs explaining she’s tabled a series of amendments to her assisted dying bill, which concern the role of doctors. The amendments include: A requirement that, in ...