By Sunday, the headlines belonged to the burning town hall in Limoges, the masked mobs and the looted shops. Emmanuel Macron ...

We don’t throw the word around. But we also understand that fascism has stages and that if you wait until it is totalising, ...

The RRS Sir David Attenborough carries scientists, like those from Woods Hole in Massachusetts, not to exploit the Southern Ocean, but to understand and protect it. That transformation was built upon ...

It has become almost trite to liken the political context of the 2020s to that of the 1920s, but the parallels are hard to ignore. The established world order is unravelling before our eyes. Demagogic ...

Zack Polanski apparently faces questions about how much council tax he has paid for the houseboat he sometimes lives on. Meanwhile, a veritable tsunami of money is flowing into the coffers of Reform ...

“They all want firing after a cock-up like that,” Oxfordshire farmer James Alexander tells me over the phone. The fallout ...

It is a rainy May evening and 13 Israelis have come to a community centre in north London to hear from candidates running in the primaries of a new political party, the Democrats. The outfit is a ...

For the major US AI companies today, there are two big risks. The first is getting on Donald Trump’s bad side. The second, strangely, is having people believe your own hype. Take Anthropic, creator of ...

I knew this was going to be a difficult semiquincentennial—a word as hard to say as the past few years have been to live through. There hasn’t been a lot to celebrate lately, so this Fourth of July I ...

Received with rapturous applause at a pro-devolution rally in 1992, these words, spoken by novelist William McIlvanney, came to define the cultural politics of contemporary Scotland. More than the ...

Whatever the truth about the stories of plots to oust Rishi Sunak, his party is plainly in trouble. The polls disagree about the depth of the hole the Tories are in, but they agree that it has been ...

In 1997, faced with public spending constraints, the incoming Labour administration looked to “partnership” with the private sector for solutions, a policy that was ultimately unsuccessful. Nearly 30 ...