I can’t say I ever really enjoyed watching Euphoria, Sam Levinson’s hit high school drama, adapted from an Israeli original, that first aired in 2019. I remember watching the first season at the ripe ...

Olly Robbins and Chris Wormald were two of the most able and “can do” middle-ranking officials with whom I worked in the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. It was no surprise to me that they ...

The party is over: Is this the end for Labour and the Tories?

Its treatment of Sydney Sweeney’s Cassie is emblematic. This series just no longer cares ...

What the Chagos deal reversal tells us about the UK’s diplomatic weakness ...

Its owners do, however, have one problem. “That overflow pipe,” said Dawn Farnworth, who established By the Wye with her husband, Steve, five years ago. “It never just trickles out, it gushes out.

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 ...

Vladimir Putin has repeatedly threatened to escalate the war in Ukraine by breaking the nuclear taboo. In June, as Russia installed tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, he raised the spectre of a ...

In the 1997 Australian comedy The Castle, an underprepared lawyer attempts to argue that the forced sale of his client’s house is in breach of the Constitution. The judge asks, “What section of the ...

Between 1949-1976, the UK government took 185,000 babies from their mothers and forced them to be adopted. An inquiry, which ended last month, said the government should finally apologise officially ...

Science fiction author and internet activist Cory Doctorow did the world a favour in early 2023, introducing a concise explanation of why so much of the internet seems to get worse every day. Doctorow ...

In the days and weeks after the Brexit vote, headlines like “The Empire Strikes Back” became a theme of international commentary. For the New York Times, the vote to Leave marked “England’s Last Gasp ...