If you have turned on the radio, listened to a political podcast or flicked through a newspaper of late, you will have noticed excited chatter about something called Blue Labour. Its primary ...

This year’s Thinkers are pushing boundaries and building connections; their ideas are novel, inspiring and challenging. But the list is not exhaustive: when you voted for your Top Thinker, we hope you ...

In this week’s Q&A, Alan and Lionel are asked where they go for analysis of the situation in the Middle East, including the Israel-Iran war.

Keir Starmer once stood up for protesters. Now he calls them terrorists As a human rights lawyer, Starmer defended direct action on grounds of conscience. But the world is now a much less forgiving ...

The number of rebels on the government’s disability benefit overhaul has now reached a point where passage of the plans depends on ministers winning some of them back. The thrust of the emerging charm ...

Ryan Gilbey, long one of the UK’s most astute and exuberant critics, is not so sure. “Subtext is now text – and greater visibility can feel like a diminished presence,” he writes in his newly ...

Brian Cox isn’t short of a few quid. Decades of performing for stage, TV and film, including Hollywood hits Braveheart, The Bourne Supremacy, X-Men 2 and, not least, as the tyrannical Logan Roy in HBO ...

Twenty years of the best superhero movie ever made Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy gives us a complex, credible Batman alongside the blockbuster spectacle ...

If international law suddenly did not exist, what difference would it make? The conduct of Russia and of Israel, among many other countries, currently seems uninhibited by legal norms in general and ...

This week, Ellen and Alona are joined by journalist James Bloodworth to discuss his new book Lost Boys: A personal journey through the manosphere.

I’ve been reflecting a great deal on why the majority for the assisted dying bill was cut so severely. I rather despair of the MPs who changed their minds. They are clearly influenced by tendentious ...

In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel’s attacks on Iran could result in regime change in Tehran. This statement underlines that its attack ...