Fearful of divine retribution for slavery, Thomas Jefferson remarked that he trembled for his country when he imagined that God is just. Some observers today are also trembling. They perceive Donald ...

The startling Netflix hit Adolescence reminded me of “Liam”, a student I met while doing research for the book Gen Z, Explained. At the age of 11 Liam had begun hanging out with alt-right subcultures ...

Politics is a precarious business, and politicians are a precarious bunch. Every five years MPs face an employment review from an increasingly volatile public. But what happens to those who don’t make ...

Let’s not talk about Lucy Letby, says my doctor friend. Not her trial and her 15 whole-life tariffs for murderous assaults on babies. Not in my kitchen. My psychiatrist friend bans the topic on her ...

When in Venice, the American painter John Singer Sargent (currently the subject of a major retrospective at Tate Britain) was not content merely to work en plein air, preferring instead to paint en ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky—rigorous dialectician and grand inquisitor into the human soul—is having a moment. The American “new right” has enlisted the Russian author in the debate over “cancel culture”; and, ...

Ahead of the recent Uxbridge and South Ruislip byelection to replace Boris Johnson as MP (who’d stepped down in disgrace after being found guilty of misleading parliament), 25,000 leaflets were posted ...

Dominic Sandbrook is speaking about Gordon of Khartoum. He lowers his voice to a reverent whisper, leans into his microphone and tells me of “an imperial hero, an adventurer, who ended his days on the ...

At the Edenbridge and Oxted Agricultural Show, on the August bank holiday weekend, spectators are waiting for a treat. The sun beats down, and the smell of hamburgers and hot dogs drifts over the ...

On 8th October 1940, a Tuesday night of high winds, the skies above London were clouded over with 300 German bombers that had flown inland from Dymchurch, Kent; German troops were marching into ...

Here we go again. Back to “Yesterday”. Back to “The Times They Are A-Changin’”. Except: today looks very much like yesterday and those times ain’t a-changed one bit. The pop charts are still dominated ...

Is the British media complicit in the Gaza genocide? This week, things heat up as Alan and Lionel are joined by Peter Oborne, former Telegraph chief political commentator, whose most recent book is ...