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On a weekend trip to Brighton, three friends and I are watching some standup comedy in a small, hot room. We’re almost the only people there, and the comedian picks us out and asks how we know each ...

Polls before last week’s Labour conference showed the party in deep trouble. The first post-conference polls have brought no relief. Ministers are asking two questions (and if they aren’t, they should ...

It doesn’t take much these days to be marked out as a “rising star” in the current Conservative Party, or what remains of it. But in recent weeks, the hitherto unknown MP for the Weald of Kent, Katie ...

The words left Gisèle Pelicot’s lips with disarming calm, yet in the Nîmes courtroom they struck like a gavel—an indictment of French justice itself. Behind her, rows of women—journalists, activists ...

Immigration has always been an excuse or accelerant for far-right terrorism. In the 1940s, the right-wing Jewish terrorist group the Irgun engaged in terrorist acts not out of xenophobia, but to ...

A stranger has been sending me emails recently. A woman in her eighties who lives in Northumberland. Her messages are full of anecdotes of a life well-lived and reading them is like tripping and ...

Andrew Adonis (What actually happens if we leave the ECHR?) acknowledges that the United Kingdom may well withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) even if the Conservatives or ...

The scene in Hostages Square, Tel Aviv, on Thursday afternoon was one of nervous relief rather than joy. There had been too many false dawns for anyone to start unbridled celebrations. The giant ...

In this week’s special episode, Alan and Lionel are grilled by Sheffield University’s third-year Broadcast Journalism students. The pair are asked about using artificial intelligence in newsrooms, how ...

Dominic Sandbrook is the author of “Never Had it So Good” (Abacus) and is finishing a book on the 1970s ...

Few former White House officials would find themselves listed in a terror watch file, but Stephen Miller is not just any official. Not that the Trump White House is a ...