When the saga of the double-decapitation of the two most senior BBC executives comes to be written, historians might care to trace it back to Dougie Smith, a shadowy backroom fixer once described as ...

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 ...

Palantir has acquired key UK government contracts, promising to make government more effective. But Peter Thiel’s controversial company has also worked with the US government and ICE on deportations ...

When I was a teenager, the Stephen King book that scared me the most was by his alter ego, Richard Bachman. The Long Walk follows a group of young men in a competitive walk across America. If they ...

Do you have the nerve? Carole Cadwalladr and Sarah Donaldson join Alan and Janine to discuss their new independent media platform the Nerve which focuses on culture, politics and tech—and share why ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a world of unpredictable strongman leaders, do nuclear weapons keep us safe or make us more vulnerable? This week, Ellen and Alona are joined by Serhii Plokhy, historian and author of The Nuclear ...

Writing about nuclear war is difficult because it is easy. J Robert Oppenheimer himself, the so-called father of the atomic bomb, set the tone with his paraphrasing of the Bhagavad Gita after the ...

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 ...

If, like me, you missed the October 2024 episode of BBC’s Panorama, you may well have wondered about the fallout it engendered: the resignations of two of the broadcaster’s top executives, a ...

Centrism used to be such a nice word. Cast your mind back to the 1990s, when Bill Clinton championed the “vital center” and Tony Blair’s Third Way was electorally unstoppable. In the afterglow of the ...