The Trump regime’s first month was designed to disempower all of us. The shock and awe of permanent provocation was intended to make citizens and leaders alike forget that we too make history, we too ...

Make air not war. This is what they tell you at the Air Guitar World Championships, which have been held every year since 1996 in Oulu in northern Finland, with one year off during the Covid pandemic.

Emilia Pérez, nominated for 13 Oscars, has been relentlessly incendiary. Netflix’s film, about a Mexican drug lord who transitions into a woman, may become the most consequential film of our ...

A giant sinkhole in Surrey dominated the headlines of late. But it is the furore over misconduct allegations at one of the county's councils that truly encapsulates local problems in upholding ...

In December 2016, Waad al-Kateab fled Bashar al-Assad’s Syria with her husband and two-year-old daughter Sama. She was sat in the passenger’s seat, pregnant with her second daughter and holding onto ...

Before Elon Musk became the world’s most visible tech entrepreneur, Mark Zuckerberg was the preferred avatar of Silicon Valley. Facebook is the final product to emerge from Zuckerberg’s history of ...

It is little wonder that Kim Leadbeater sounds increasingly exasperated as her bill heads into its third week of line-by-line scrutiny. “This should be a robust process with thorough checks, ...

Germany has been reborn three times since 1945. The first was in 1949, with the formation of the Federal Republic. The second was reunification in 1990, when West Germany absorbed the communist East.

In this special episode, young journalists from Oxford Brookes put their questions to Alan and Lionel. Plus, Lionel attempts a cockney accent, with limited success... In a rapidly changing world, can ...

Maurice Glasman, Blue Labour (2022) and William Morris, News From Nowhere (1890). There was once a seminar, at the Labour party stronghold of University College, Oxford (Beveridge, Attlee and Wilson ...

Disbelief (Smokestack Books, 2023) and Dislocation: An Anthology of Poetic Response to Russia’s War in Ukraine (Slavica, 2024), ed. Julia Nemirovskaya and Anna Krushelnitskaya Just as Hitler’s ...

Boris Johnson does occasionally tell the truth, even if you have to go back nearly a decade to unearth his honest assessment of Donald Trump. In 2015, the then Mayor of London accused the aspiring ...