If you’ve ever walked a city street so late at night that it’s very early in the morning, you may have been greeted by a strange and unbidden thought. In the eerie stillness, it can feel for a moment ...

Enough for the moment about Baroness Charlotte Owen, made a peer by Boris Johnson when she was just 29 years old. She is most definitely one to watch, especially, as revealed last week, she is now ...

Let me take you aboard my combine harvester for a moment. Eighteen tonnes of high-tech machinery hums a deep bass line as it rumbles through the field, cutting our crops and separating grain from ...

Who are the “real” British? Those torching hotels housing asylum seekers, attacking mosques and chanting hateful slogans, or those who flooded the streets after the riots this summer to reject racism ...

The sign on the lectern in Downing Street’s rose garden declared the prime minister’s speech would be about “Fixing the foundations”, but it did so in the manner of a demolition notice—with sans serif ...

Comedians like Ricky Gervais and Jimmy Carr present themselves as edgy free speech warriors—but they’re actually very mainstream, says Lee ...

At a time when reputation in business has never been more important, eyebrows are bound to be raised when any boss of a public company is willing to have their name linked to Boris Johnson. But that ...

It is nearly one year since 7th October and—words I have written before but still can’t quite believe—the Gaza war is still happening and hostages are still being held in the Strip. The grim data ...

Michel Barnier’s surprising reincarnation as prime minister of France may turn out to be highly consequential in normalising the French far right. Paradoxically, however, that may make it harder for ...

For the terminally online, the word of the summer was brat. Forever open to a dose of free-spirited rebellion, the interwebs could not get enough of gen Z’s latest term for a brash and confident woman ...

This week Ellen Halliday and Alona Ferber discuss a vital question: what is the reality of life under occupation for Palestinians? And how much longer can the world ignore it? They are joined by ...