All TV programmes—all fiction of any kind, I guess—have to reckon with the problem of when to give the viewer the answers. Questions hook, answers satisfy. Once satisfied by an answer, how to keep the ...

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 ...

What explains it all? How are you making sense of the turmoil one man has unleashed on the world? How, in the space of five short weeks, have we come to the pass where our staunchest ally now attacks, ...

With naked self-interest back in vogue, Meta wasted little effort disguising its prostration at the feet of King Donald. Attempts to spin the tech giant’s desire to evade scrutiny and regulation were ...

I value good law: rooted in expertise, guided by compassion and designed to serve and protect those it governs. That is the approach taken by the cross-party committee of MPs examining Kim Leadbeater ...

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 ...

There’s something about a bright winter’s morning that does wonders for the soul. As the first light spills over the horizon—turning frosted fields into a tapestry of silver—the farm is momentarily ...

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 ...

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis for a discussion of law and policy. This week’s document is the United States Supreme Court’s ...

Social psychologist and presenter Keon West explains what science can tell us about racism, why it matters in a post-truth world, and why he thinks Boris Johnson’s race report was a ‘mistake’ How do ...

Few debates elicit as much moral discomfort as the question of legal voluntary euthanasia. The practical objections—fear of coercion, societal pressures, the risk of mistakes—are serious. But beneath ...

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 ...