Writing a proper biography of Shakespeare is virtually impossible given the shortage of hard data about him. Actually, it’s not that limited for someone who lived 400 years ago, and who never got ...

Are France and the UK on the same Trumpite track?

With deepfakes and chatbots eroding our shared reality, fact checking and news gathering are more vital than ever ...

This week’s special episode of Media Confidential coincides with ITV’s new drama The Hack, about the phone-hacking scandal which led to the closure of the News of the World, the Leveson Inquiry, and a ...

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 ...

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s legal texts are section 19 of the Public ...

“LinkedIn doesn’t know me anymore,” someone complained to me recently. “What do you mean?” I asked. She explained that the platform has replaced the old “recommended jobs” section, which used to show ...

Talking about racism and antisemitism can get you into trouble, as Diane Abbott knows well. The MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington has been suspended from the Labour Party for a second time for ...

Its owners do, however, have one problem. “That overflow pipe,” said Dawn Farnworth, who established By the Wye with her husband, Steve, five years ago. “It never just trickles out, it gushes out.

F Scott Fitzgerald was fulsome in his praise and Sinclair Lewis declared it the “first book to catch Manhattan”. Published a few months after Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, John Dos Passos’s novel ...

The best way to attract attention in the crowded space of technology is to make bold claims. AI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, director of the AI Futures Project, a research group based in California, ...

Nigel Farage is tired of being everyone else’s gadfly and now he has found true ambition. A member of parliament at the eighth time of trying, he wants to be Reform UK’s prime minister, and he ...