The $50m bounty placed on the head of President Nicolás Maduro and the enormous build-up of US military forces in the Caribbean—the largest since the US invasion of Panama—make one thing clear: the ...

As the day of the budget nears, the chancellor has very publicly changed her mind on raising taxes Labour pledged in its manifesto not to raise—from saying she would make such “necessary choices” to ...

In an era of punitive lawsuits, how can we protect journalistic freedoms? This week, Alan and Janine talk to David McCraw, the lead newsroom lawyer for the New York Times. With Donald Trump’s record ...

The “Wagatha Christie” case requires at least three things to be explained. The first is how, in legal and practical terms, Colleen Rooney won and Rebekah Vardy lost. And to understand this, we can ...

Less than 18 months after Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves swept to power, some whisper that next week’s budget could finish them off. With borrowing high and growth low, the pair might plead that it ...

A man in his late twenties recently enquired about booking me with an unusual request. He wanted to hire me for an hour for a very specific, non-sexual roleplay. Basically, he had played a prank on ...

Within 15 months of its landslide 1997 election victory, New Labour had made ending rough sleeping and reducing homelessness a defining mission. Within 24 months that government had established a ...

The BBC is under attack. Alan and Janine go to heart of the biggest media story of the week, and reveal what really happened at the disastrous board meeting that toppled BBC leadership. Under fire ...

Few historical figures have been discussed and debated as much as Adolf Hitler. We have a wealth of primary source material available to us about his life, including his autobiographical manifesto ...

There’s one way the BBC could retrieve some dignity from the smoking rubble of the past week. It should send Donald Trump a four-word reply to his blustering threat to sue the corporation in Florida ...

Palantir seemed an obvious contender to implement the government’s digital ID plans, but the company’s UK chief was adamant he didn’t want the job. At the start of October, less than a week after Keir ...

A few years ago my London-born wife announced that she was homesick. Unsettled by the Covid pandemic and liberated by my retirement from regular employment, she wanted us to move to the city she had ...