There was once a ruler who was displeased with a handful of legislators and so he sought to arrest them for treason. But the attempt failed and became instead a symbolic moment, showing the limits of ...

There is no British cultural event that bears reasonable comparison to the annual Super Bowl halftime performance. No Glastonbury headline slot, Last Night of the Proms or Jools Holland Hootenanny can ...

It didn’t take much. In one corner, a charismatic, manipulative paedophile. In the other corner, two ancient and barnacled pillars of the British state. The House of Lords and the monarchy are still ...

If Keir Starmer had someone like Gordon Brown or Boris Johnson as chancellor or foreign secretary, I suspect a Labour leadership election would now be underway. But he doesn’t, and the absence of an ...

Trump’s attack on the BBC is a harbinger of much worse to come The BBC has its problems—but they are nothing compared to the American billionaires who control much of US media ...

Richard Linklater’s new film goes back to the making of Jean Luc-Godard’s ‘Breathless’. Godard himself would not have approved ...

©BANANA PANCAKE/GETTY IMAGES I’ve seen a good deal in England which suggested that, just maybe, not all was well with the collective psyche—the in-your-face binge drinking, the bookies stoking ...

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 last year, the United States has transitioned from flawed liberal democracy to competitive authoritarianism. In this new regime, institutions as diverse as universities, law firms and news ...

For all Aristotle’s reputation as the greatest of the ancient philosophers, most today rightly bracket off his defence of slavery and his dim view of the intellectual capacities of women as ...

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.