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 ...

Politics, as we political scientists love to note, is about trade-offs. What happens if you pretend trade-offs don’t exist? In November, the government put forward two major policy strategies. Rachel ...

Paul McCartney has joined other famous musicians to make a stand against AI ...

The world economy is a mess. The system, notionally governed by the invisible hand of the market, is no longer governed in any meaningful way: private excess puffs up bubbles that government ...

Vladimir Putin has repeatedly threatened to escalate the war in Ukraine by breaking the nuclear taboo. In June, as Russia installed tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, he raised the spectre of a ...

This is not the time for negotiations over Ukraine. Successful peace negotiations usually require both a mutually hurting stalemate (a specific concept in diplomacy) and leadership on both sides ...

When should you ban a far-right party? A motion to consider a ban of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), signed by 113 members of parliament, has been submitted to Bundestag. It’s a sign of how ...

My apprentice arrived at the end of August: a young man of twenty-five, dragging a box of books and a briefcase with two changes of clothes. I had asked for a woman, but I had asked for tinned peaches ...

“White Lives Matter Burnley!” ran the banner trailed by a plane above the Etihad stadium, Manchester City’s ground, during a match with Burnley in June. Since the Premier League resumed after the ...

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 ...

We’re pleased to announce the shortlist for the Think Tank Awards 2020. Thank you to everyone who entered this year. The quality of each submission was extremely high. To register to watch the awards ...