Alan and Lionel are joined by American editor and media executive Norman Pearlstine. They reflect on Trump’s second term so far, and how news outlets have reported on some of his astonishing executive ...

German election campaigns usually have a sense of quiet inevitability about them. Accurate polls long in advance give a good idea of who will be chancellor, and with which coalition partners. So it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ghee coffee for gut health and weight loss, turmeric shots to boost your immune system, oil-pulling for dental care, ashwagandha pills for cancer-curing detoxes and stress reduction—the internet is ...

For around three days in mid-January, Rachel Reeves was on the verge of losing her job—according to the UK’s news media. The Daily Mail splashed that she was a “lame duck” two days in a row. The ...

Last week, the prime minister appeared to be governing against his former self. The barrister who came to public prominence as the (unpaid) representative of two misfit environmental campaigners in ...

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 ...

No one much wants to mark the fifth anniversary of Brexit this week, despite the event’s seismic significance. For the victors, it was too disastrous; for the losers, it is too painful. It is not just ...

Sam Weech, a reverend, looks down the platform with alarm. As if he doesn’t have enough to worry about, as if there haven’t been enough setbacks, a bishop is hastening towards him. You can tell the ...

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 ...