“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 ...

Here's a paradox. Ten years after the Brexit referendum, short-lived, failing British governments have become the norm and Europe is the curse of our politics. Yet British support for Ukraine, 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 ...

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 ...

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 almost midnight at the close of 15th June 2026, and I am standing in the middle of a world that is supposed to be ending, not that anyone nearby seems all that concerned by the prospect. In ...

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 ...

She did not trip over a kerb, or bump into a lamppost, or try to avoid a killer cyclist. No, it was a genuine old-lady, out-of-the-blue, sudden crash to the ground. I have for some time battled with ...

Anthony Bourdain would have turned 70 today. In the wake of his suicide in 2018, friends of the writer, chef and television host encouraged fans to raise a glass to “Tony” on his birthday, creating ...