Today’s EU-UK summit is historic. It’s the first formal gathering of this group since Brexit, bringing together the president of the European Council António Costa, the European Commission president ...

Levy’s latest book is certainly a contradictory mash-up of 34 essays, stories and short texts. It includes a taut telegram to an electricity pylon, her admiration of the ovoid quality of lemons and ...

This week on Media Confidential, journalist Harry Shukman joins Alan and Lionel to discuss his year spent infiltrating the far right. Harry’s new book Year of the Rat explores this journey. He shares ...

Alan and Lionel are joined by Lea Korsgaard, co-founder and editor-in-chief at Zetland, the Danish media organisation revolutionising the way people engage with the news. She discusses what makes the ...

Has the United States become an autocracy? As Donald Trump marks his 100th day in office, Ellen and Alona are joined by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, scholar of authoritarianism and author of Strongmen: from ...

In the months after a decisive election, voting intention polls have no predictive value. That is why I have largely ignored them so far. But tracked over time, they do tell us something. That is why ...

In late January, Nigel Farage stood in front of a packed Reform party fundraiser in Oswald’s, an exclusive private members’ club in Mayfair, central London. Farage encouraged the 100-strong crowd to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fearful of divine retribution for slavery, Thomas Jefferson remarked that he trembled for his country when he imagined that God is just. Some observers today are also trembling. They perceive Donald ...

Given how central journalists like to say their profession is to keeping the public informed, you might think that relentless retrenchment in the industry over the past decade would leave people ...

The Murdoch family has been battling for control of their media empire. Alan and Lionel are joined by journalist Jim Rutenberg, who reported on the secret trial—and uncovers the drama behind it all ...