An English funeral hits with full force at the moment when a stiff upper-lip momentarily wobbles and a steady voice begins to choke. Keir Starmer’s eulogy to himself achieved the same effect. Arguably ...
In the months after a decisive election, voting intention polls have no predictive value. That is why I have largely ignored them so far. But tracked over time, they do tell us something. That is why ...
First of all, a confession. My first instinct on learning last month that Andy Burnham was shooting for Makerfield was that it simply couldn’t be done. Back in 2024, this had been one of Reform’s top ...
So here we are, ten years after Brexit. The pure air of sovereignty. Taking back control from the unelected Brussels bureaucrats and handing it to Elon Musk, JD Vance, Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson and ...
The news that Steven Spielberg’s latest sci-fi picture, Disclosure Day, has had a better-than-expected global opening weekend, making a shade under $100 million internationally, has led the excitable ...
In this Monday’s episode of Media Confidential Alan and Lionel are talking to NPR’s media correspondent David Folkenflik about what is actually happening at American broadcaster CBS. They discuss the ...
The GB News obsession with immigration even extends to antisemitic tropes, and no one is stopping it
Even in the asleep-at-the-wheel world of retired Ofcom “regulator” Michael Grade, the deal with news channels like GB News is supposed to be clear: you have an obligation to reflect a variety of views ...
People are tired of Westminster. The two-party dominance, fostered by the restrictive first-past-the-post system, stifles genuine choice and innovation. Labour and the Tories grapple for Number 10, ...
Cinema is changing rapidly. It might be leaving some of its old masters behind ...
Not with a bang, but a whimper… Doctor Who seems to, for all intents and purposes, have reached the end of an era once again. A year after the last episode aired, featuring Ncuti Gatwa as the 15th ...
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 ...
In 1996 and 1997, the reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov played a series of games against Deep Blue, an IBM supercomputer optimised to compete against humans in tournament conditions.
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