To my mind, the single best thing about the internet is that, between all the vast archives of humdrum information, there are so many niches where the really weird stuff gets in. “Creepypasta”, a ...

In the run-up to every election in my Middle England market town, a light drizzle of campaign posters appears in windows. Mostly Labour, or “the Red Team”, as my youngest daughter calls them.

One example of recency bias is to believe the United Kingdom can only have a two-party system, rather than multiple parties both within parliament and out. Our political culture is so dominated by ...

Here we go again. Back to “Yesterday”. Back to “The Times They Are A-Changin’”. Except: today looks very much like yesterday and those times ain’t a-changed one bit. The pop charts are still dominated ...

The elections on 7th May look set to be the most significant of this Westminster parliament. They will produce new governments for Scotland and Wales, and they will show whether Reform UK has started ...

The American constitution is creaking at the seams. The founding fathers got many things right, but ultimately their imagination failed them. They could not, in their worst nightmares, conceive of a ...

In 1996 and 1997, the reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov played a series of games against Deep Blue, an IBM supercomputer optimised to compete against humans in tournament conditions.

The police burst in, broke up the gathering and arrested everyone involved. They carted them off to the cells, confiscated their phones and, in at least one case, raided their home and took away all ...

When Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf told the Times last week that Christianity was “core to the history and the DNA of the country”, you might think he was merely stating the obvious. In fact, this was the ...

Twelfth November was an unremarkable day in British politics. Another day when the topic of debate wasn’t one of voters’ main concerns—immigration or healthcare, say, or the budget, or the farmers—but ...

When the saga of the double-decapitation of the two most senior BBC executives comes to be written, historians might care to trace it back to Dougie Smith, a shadowy backroom fixer once described as ...

Is the British media complicit in the Gaza genocide? This week, things heat up as Alan and Lionel are joined by Peter Oborne, former Telegraph chief political commentator, whose most recent book is ...