One way of exploring the limits of law and policy is by posing hypothetical questions. This week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a legal text or other formal document is used as the basis of a wider ...

The guest lecturer at Oxford on Monday was re-writing his speech in the taxi. A professor at Columbia University, New York, Jelani Cobb had just learned of the arrest and imminent deportation of one ...

May Serrano Fuertes is known as a sologamist matchmaker. She facilitates people in sologamy, a new practice of marriage or commitment to oneself. “Eleven years ago, I promised myself that I would be ...

In 2014, on a Friday night just before Christmas, the US government released a heavily redacted, non-searchable, virtually unreadable document–likely hoping that it would go unnoticed in a wash of ...

When manuscripts of Richard Osman’s first novel were doing the rounds with publishers, there was an early sign that things were going to turn out well. “I knew people were reading The Thursday Murder ...

The Leopard begins with an ending, the rosary’s concluding words: “now and at the hour of our death. Amen.” The novel’s “now” is May 1860, a moment that inaugurates the slow death of Sicily’s old ...

Young people aren’t consuming news like their parents did. Alex Mahon, CEO of Channel 4, joins Alan and Lionel to discuss how journalists can earn the attention—and the trust—of a generation Gen Z ...

The enemies of social security are not letting a good crisis go to waste. In his FT column this week, George Osborne’s biographer Janan Ganesh argued that “Europe must trim its welfare state to build ...

Alan and Lionel respond to more listeners’ questions on this week’s Q&A. In a world where the news never sleeps, the editors are asked whether news coverage is proactive or reactive. They also discuss ...

At the end of 2024, the Good Growth Foundation (GGF) polled thousands of Britons about their attitudes to growth. Cut to the chase: “Voters do not trust that a growing economy will improve their ...

On 20th December 2024, six people were killed and 299 injured when a car was driven into crowds at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, the capital of the east German state of Saxony-Anhalt. The modus ...

If you’re finding the hype and doom about artificial intelligence bewildering, you’re not alone. Hundreds of billions are pouring into technologies which, if you believe Bill Gates, could solve ...