In this episode of Media Confidential, Alan questions the quality of reporting around the Henry Nowak case, and questions why so many in the media are focusing on the cost of DEI training in the ...

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 ...

Tinged with lilac and freckled with cartoon skulls, the Aesthetics Wiki’s homepage welcomes thousands of users a day, promising to offer them a comprehensive guide to all “visual schemata”. At time of ...

Earlier this year, a YouTube video began to make the rounds of social media and music blogs. It features two figures in black and white polkadots that extend from their clothing to cover their hands ...

Number 10’s famous front entrance has become the most notorious revolving door in Europe. We have had as many prime ministers in the last 10 years as in the previous 40. The United Kingdom is the “new ...

There are many things that can be said of the now-abandoned scheme to send asylum seekers from the United Kingdom to Rwanda. It was illiberal and misconceived. It had at its heart a contradiction, in ...

As you may have read in my last column, I was recently made redundant for the second time in my short professional life. History is a series of crises, of revolutions followed by periods of peace and ...

Amid a stalled Gaza ceasefire, with the Israeli army conducting deadly strikes and Hamas still governing, Palestinians in the Strip are living through a continued humanitarian crisis. But, somehow, in ...

The tournament is the global festival of our times: a story of carbon, corruption, migration and hope ...

Ravi Gurumurthy is chief executive of Nesta. He is writing in a personal capacity ...

Among the people least suited to the job are major ex-politicians ...

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 ...