“There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face,” says Duncan, justifying his deluded trust in the treacherous thane of Cawdor. Yet the face of the newly made thane, Macbeth, “is as a book ...
The Four Seasons, loosely based on the Alan Alda film of the same name, follows three couples in middle age, some of whom have known each other since college, across four holidays over the course of a ...
If you read a judgment of a US federal court, especially an opinion of a Supreme Court justice, you will see respectful, almost lyrical references to the common law of England as at the point of ...
“You look so much like Paloma,” says conspiracy theorist and anti-vaxx campaigner Kate Shemirani, referring to her late daughter who died two years ago. Sat on a camping chair in her garden, she ...
“The people of Dundee and Bangor feel just as distant from Holyrood and the Senedd as they do from Westminster.” In a speech largely focused on English devolution, this was all Andy Burnham really had ...
In today’s Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel discuss Donald Trump’s court case against the BBC. As the broadcaster requests the president’s phone records from January 6th, some commentators think it ...
Lying, lobbying, and luxury donor gifts—has UK politics gone crooked? This week, Ellen and Imaan are joined by Robert Barrington, professor of anti-corruption practice at Sussex University’s Centre ...
Keir Starmer’s proposal, made shortly before he resigned, to “give kids their childhood back” by banning under-16s from certain social media platforms drew the kind of criticism that greets any ...
Just over 20 years ago, I called for the House of Lords—half of parliament—to be moved to Manchester. I did this for the same reason that Andy Burnham wants to do the job of prime minister partly from ...
In this week’s Media Confidential, Alan Rusbridger talks to Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson, authors of Getting Murdoched: How Murdoch’s Media Wields Power and Punishment. The three discuss the ...
It is, apparently, none of our business. It’s an entirely private matter. A would-be prime minister trousers £5m from a billionaire living on the other side of the world. So what? Nobody cares. Mind ...
The Reform leader should be made to understand that transparency is part of standing for high office ...