How do we reconcile truth and morality with the past? This was the grand challenge that the philosopher rose to meet ...

The US-Israeli attack on Iran has destabilised the Middle East and the global economy. We asked experts to explain what will happen next In his seminal book On War Carl von Clausewitz famously ...

There is only one road into the Nuba Mountains: a thin ribbon of sand and rock leading towards shrubby foothills. The sky here is bleached white by heat; the air so thick with dust it smells of ...

Lives lost from the attacks on Iran from Israel and the United States are mounting. The human toll is not the only cost of the war, however. There will likely be three other lasting consequences, none ...

Joseph Wright of Derby’s painting An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768) is not really an experiment on a bird—it’s an experiment on the people watching. How, it asks, will spectators react to ...

On the morning of 28th February, Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, a nine-year-old pupil at the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, a city in southern Iran, left for school. Standing at the top of the stairs ...

In the first year of the Labour government, we began to hear about Denmark’s approach to migration. In February 2025, political scientist Mark Leonard wrote in the New Statesman about the example the ...

Ed Miliband and Bill McKibben: The solar revolution is here—and it isn’t going anywhere ...

To many he encapsulated a quintessentially British sense of the absurd. But beneath all the nonsense Baxter’s project had a much deeper, more globe-spanning outlook ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is commonly acknowledged that while biological sex is genetically determined, gender is a social construct. A human being cannot—and should not—be reduced to their biology, or indeed their genitals ...