What does the World Cup mean to you? This year’s tournament has been highly political so far: as it began, one of the host nations was at war with one of the competitors and referees and staff have ...

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 ...

Sarah O’Connor: Should we fight the AI revolution?

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

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There’s an idea kicking around that “woke” is killing culture. According to elder statesmen of the arts, from John Cleese to Sean Penn, do-gooders and virtue-signallers are suffocating the life out of ...

Homer was made for Hollywood, you could say. Lantern-jawed men, sexy witches, casts of thousands, audiences holding their collective breath. In a 1954 cinematic epic about the end of the Trojan war ...

Once upon a time Birmingham was described as “the best-governed city in the world”. The description was made in 1890 by New York’s august Harper’s magazine: The 1890 article went on for 12 pages, and ...

When the Scottish government published its Hate Crime and Public Order Bill last April, a major backlash followed. The claims came thick and fast. JK Rowling would end up in jail. Comedians would be ...

Two days before the missiles started raining down on Baghdad in March 2003, Josh Richards packed a mixture of petrol and washing-up liquid into his rucksack and headed off to RAF Fairford in ...

The headphone in my left ear emits a beep at random intervals within a 60-minute timeframe. It’s an insistent noise, as though it’s forcing me to do something. And it is. As soon as I hear the beep, I ...