The second Trump presidency has proved beyond doubt that cowardice is contagious. A blustering, mentally unstable bully has cowed powerful law firms, giant media companies, venerated universities and ...

Britain has long underestimated Eastern Europe as a source of strategic knowledge, treating it primarily as a region that ...

The narrator of Ted Chiang’s short story “The Great Silence” is a parrot at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The bird watches as humans desperately seek life in other solar systems using a huge ...

In September 2019, when Jack Godfrey and Ellie Coote began to work on what became Hot Mess (currently playing at the Other Palace theatre in London), the moment felt urgent: the biggest climate ...

Christiane Jatahy, the director of A Trial – after An Enemy of the People, which opened this year’s Edinburgh International Festival, was born under the Brazilian military dictatorship of the late ...

History tells us when new prime ministers go early they usually win. But it takes courage, especially when you already have a big majority ...

One summer day in 1994, a young law student called Jo Maugham arrived at a central London office to cover for a secretary who’d called in sick. Smart in his suit and tie, he was surprised to be ...

How the UK Supreme Court decided a fundamental rights case without using human rights law ...

It hasn’t happened very often, and when it has happened it’s often been a bore. We talk to the makers of ‘Hot Mess’ about how to make art out of a crisis ...

Big Tech has quantified, monetised and exploited our attention. Can we dare to rebel and engage with the world in different ways?

Last summer was all about brat and demure. This summer was about slurs against AI. New terms for a middle-aged man who treats ChatGPT as his new best mate: second-hand thinker, slopper, groksucker.

The French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943) had a precocious gift for sympathy—and more than a hint of masochism. She sought out the darkness to escape the comfortable bourgeois life—the very model ...