There is no British cultural event that bears reasonable comparison to the annual Super Bowl halftime performance. No Glastonbury headline slot, Last Night of the Proms or Jools Holland Hootenanny can ...

In 2021, the British government promised to “explore options for a wider civilian reserve” who could be activated in a crisis. The exploration happened (I was part of it), but the reserve did not.

If Keir Starmer had someone like Gordon Brown or Boris Johnson as chancellor or foreign secretary, I suspect a Labour leadership election would now be underway. But he doesn’t, and the absence of an ...

It didn’t take much. In one corner, a charismatic, manipulative paedophile. In the other corner, two ancient and barnacled pillars of the British state. The House of Lords and the monarchy are still ...

Unless you have a mind open to paradox, Jesus was a sissy. It’s taken a lot of effort over the years to claim him as a man’s man. Jesus, in the gospels, is not what we, or for that matter, the ancient ...

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” Antonio Gramsci’s words, written in prison near Bari almost 100 years ago, ring out to us now. The ...

The “Wagatha Christie” case requires at least three things to be explained. The first is how, in legal and practical terms, Colleen Rooney won and Rebekah Vardy lost. And to understand this, we can ...

“Less Holocaust, more Anne Frank,” was the advice Michael Grunwald received from the CEO of a publishing house who opted not to bid for his latest book, We Are Eating the Earth. Grunwald took notice.

When Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney declared at Davos last week that “the old order is not coming back,” the global reaction varied sharply. In Europe, as the Economist noted in a piece aptly ...

The town of Ilulissat, with its brightly coloured wooden houses, sits on the banks of a spectacular ice fjord at the mouth of the Jakobshavn Glacier on the west coast of Greenland. With a population ...

For years, debates about Iran have revolved around a single question: Will the regime fall? Amid intensifying protest and economic pressure, this question has regained urgency. History, however, ...

It’s unwise to take tech billionaires’ predictions about the future at face value. Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s promises, very few of us have moved our work and social lives to the Metaverse. Aside from ...