And so we come to the end. Arriving with as much ballyhoo as Netflix’s publicity department can muster, the streaming service has just—ahem—“dropped” the first episodes of what will be the final ...

Keir Starmer’s government has today taken decisive action by abolishing the two-child limit. This cruel, poverty-producing policy was announced by George Osborne in his July 2015 emergency budget. It ...

As the day of the budget nears, the chancellor has very publicly changed her mind on raising taxes Labour pledged in its manifesto not to raise—from saying she would make such “necessary choices” to ...

If, like me, you missed the October 2024 episode of BBC’s Panorama, you may well have wondered about the fallout it engendered: the resignations of two of the broadcaster’s top executives, a ...

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 ...

So now what? The two most senior BBC executives have walked out of almost impossible jobs. The governance of the organisation is an almost laughable mess. And we’re within four years of the strong ...

A man in his late twenties recently enquired about booking me with an unusual request. He wanted to hire me for an hour for a very specific, non-sexual roleplay. Basically, he had played a prank on ...

Few historical figures have been discussed and debated as much as Adolf Hitler. We have a wealth of primary source material available to us about his life, including his autobiographical manifesto ...

In a world of unpredictable strongman leaders, do nuclear weapons keep us safe or make us more vulnerable? This week, Ellen and Alona are joined by Serhii Plokhy, historian and author of The Nuclear ...

It hasn’t yet been widely picked up, but this week Rachel Reeves substantially changed the government’s argument for putting up income tax, despite Labour’s explicit manifesto pledge to the contrary.

Palantir seemed an obvious contender to implement the government’s digital ID plans, but the company’s UK chief was adamant he didn’t want the job. At the start of October, less than a week after Keir ...

Writing about nuclear war is difficult because it is easy. J Robert Oppenheimer himself, the so-called father of the atomic bomb, set the tone with his paraphrasing of the Bhagavad Gita after the ...