How do we reconcile truth and morality with the past? This was the grand challenge that the philosopher rose to meet ...

Lives lost from the attacks on Iran from Israel and the United States are mounting. The human toll is not the only cost of the war, however. There will likely be three other lasting consequences, none ...

The UK has chosen not to follow Trump into the war on Iran. Has Keir Starmer damaged the “special relationship”—or was it the right call? This week Philip and Ellen are joined by Kim Darroch, former ...

Donald Trump has been singularly unclear about his plans or expectations for the war against Iran. Piecing together his inconsistent daily posts on Truth Social, it appears he wants to deny Iran any ...

In the first year of the Labour government, we began to hear about Denmark’s approach to migration. In February 2025, political scientist Mark Leonard wrote in the New Statesman about the example the ...

Joseph Wright of Derby’s painting An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768) is not really an experiment on a bird—it’s an experiment on the people watching. How, it asks, will spectators react to ...

Ed Miliband and Bill McKibben: The solar revolution is here—and it isn’t going anywhere ...

To many he encapsulated a quintessentially British sense of the absurd. But beneath all the nonsense Baxter’s project had a much deeper, more globe-spanning outlook ...

Washington has immense military power at its disposal—but no idea how to secure a meaningful victory ...

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 ...

In the last year, the United States has transitioned from flawed liberal democracy to competitive authoritarianism. In this new regime, institutions as diverse as universities, law firms and news ...

It is commonly acknowledged that while biological sex is genetically determined, gender is a social construct. A human being cannot—and should not—be reduced to their biology, or indeed their genitals ...