Polls before last week’s Labour conference showed the party in deep trouble. The first post-conference polls have brought no relief. Ministers are asking two questions (and if they aren’t, they should ...

“I almost worship him as if he were a god. I have never felt such an extravagant admiration for anybody.” So the 22-year-old Bertrand Russell wrote to his fiancée Alys Pearsall Smith in November 1894.

Historians will debate for ever and a day why the second Donald Trump government was so much more extreme than his first. So extreme that Trump’s second term, if unchecked, could launch a revolution ...

In 1989, Magiciens de la Terre, an art exhibition in a former abattoir built under Emperor Napoleon III in northeast Paris, brought together the work of 100 living artists, half of them from the west ...

Immigration has always been an excuse or accelerant for far-right terrorism. In the 1940s, the right-wing Jewish terrorist group the Irgun engaged in terrorist acts not out of xenophobia, but to ...

On the afternoon of 13th September I left Southwark Cathedral and headed for the Tube. I’d been attending the Festival of Preaching, a conference sponsored by Hymns Ancient and Modern, that promised ...

In the acknowledgements to her book Nuclear War: A Scenario, shortlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, Annie Jacobsen writes: “Nuclear war is insane. Every person I interviewed ...

With wide shoulders and grey hair, Wael al-Dahdouh suits the nickname Al-Jabal, the mountain of Gaza. Throughout years of war reporting, Al Jazeera’s bureau chief in the Strip has been pictured in a ...

In 1983, architect Peter Calthorpe gave up on San Francisco, where he had tried and failed to organise neighbourhood communities, and moved to a houseboat in Sausalito, a town on the San Francisco Bay ...

Books and films informed our atomic nightmares during the Cold War. They are doing so again ...

David King on COP30: ‘My fear is that the US will turn up’ The former UK climate adviser on Paris, his net zero doubts and why he’d prefer a United States no-show at the annual UN climate conference ...

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 ...