December is not the best month in the Polish city of Katowice. Unless you are a fan of coal-driven heavy industry, the town’s appeal is not obvious. In December 2018, the smell of coal that hung in ...

Last week, St Antony’s college, Oxford, hosted the first of a series of seminars on populism. The series is being organised by two MPs, Liam Byrne (Labour) and John Glen (Conservative), who are the ...

Every murder mystery must have an identifiable killer, every superhero movie an evil nemesis, every romantic comedy a spoiled yuppie antagonist. And apparently every lost presidential election needs a ...

A piece of smart detective work by an Australian coroner following a particularly sad suicide has led to a review of the laws in Victoria state governing assisted dying—and might lead to the sort of ...

“One in 12 in Londoners is illegal migrant”; this was a front-page splash in the Telegraph, picked up and repeated across not just the right-wing press but in “mainstream” publications and by ...

Could it happen here? Could a Donald Trump tribute act sweep into power in the UK, trash the existing order and overwhelm the system with a series of outlandish and extreme measures before anyone had ...

Four years ago, Meta blocked Donald Trump from posting on Facebook after his false claims of election fraud helped foment the January 6 assault on the US Capitol. Now Meta’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, ...

The Weekly Constitutional is an exploration of a law and policy issues with reference to legal and other formal texts. This week’s texts are this 2020 judgment of the Northern Irish High Court and ...

Donald Trump’s first ten days of his second term as president of the United States included no less than two repeated calls for Egypt and Jordan to take in Palestinians from Gaza, and an additional ...

Alan and Lionel are joined by American editor and media executive Norman Pearlstine. They reflect on Trump’s second term so far, and how news outlets have reported on some of his astonishing executive ...

A cross-party group of MPs has proposed another amendment to the assisted dying bill, with the charity Humanists UK announcing this morning: “MPs from the Labour Party, Conservatives, Liberal ...

Why is Donald Trump doing this shock and awe on tariffs? Is it because he wants the tariffs? Or because he wants to use them to force deals—and extract payments—from friends and foes alike? He seems ...