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

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To a certain breed of British journalist, the Jason Arday story was irresistible catnip. He seemed to be the living, breathing proof that wokery was destroying our most august universities. Time for a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

“Imagine if a composer of complex symphonies, or a writer of novels, suddenly stopped work while at the top of their game.” A hypothetical Beethoven calling it quits just before his Fifth Symphony; a ...

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 ...

On a weekend trip to Brighton, three friends and I are watching some standup comedy in a small, hot room. We’re almost the only people there, and the comedian picks us out and asks how we know each ...

In his Prospect article "The rise of time machine fiction," Sam Sacks identified that “once a sci-fi plot conceit, time travel fiction has become among the most popular structural devices in ...