Comedians like Ricky Gervais and Jimmy Carr present themselves as edgy free speech warriors—but they’re actually very mainstream, says Lee ...

Who are the “real” British? Those torching hotels housing asylum seekers, attacking mosques and chanting hateful slogans, or those who flooded the streets after the riots this summer to reject racism ...

At a time when reputation in business has never been more important, eyebrows are bound to be raised when any boss of a public company is willing to have their name linked to Boris Johnson. But that ...

The sign on the lectern in Downing Street’s rose garden declared the prime minister’s speech would be about “Fixing the foundations”, but it did so in the manner of a demolition notice—with sans serif ...

According to the writer, historian and activist Rebecca Solnit, US media are failing to cover Donald Trump properly. “His incapacity to be coherent is pretty much hidden from the public, unless ...

Michel Barnier’s surprising reincarnation as prime minister of France may turn out to be highly consequential in normalising the French far right. Paradoxically, however, that may make it harder for ...

Whatever happened to Baroness Charlotte Owen of Alderley Edge? At the age of 29, her elevation to the peerage in July 2023 by Boris Johnson was quite the mystery. Now she’s got stuck into the role in ...

“Some, perhaps many, occupants of Grenfell Tower regarded the TMO as an uncaring and bullying overlord, which belittled and marginalised them, regarded them as a nuisance or worse, and simply failed ...

This week Ellen Halliday and Alona Ferber discuss a vital question: what is the reality of life under occupation for Palestinians? And how much longer can the world ignore it? They are joined by ...

We have had enough. Enough of our neighbours not being able to earn a decent wage in our no-growth economy. Enough of today’s young adults being stuck at home with Mum and Dad because they can’t ...

In the spring of 1961, Gerhard Richter, a young East German artist noted mainly for his portraits and socialist wall paintings, slipped through the last chink in the Iron Curtain—West Berlin—and fled ...