The enormous gamble that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken with his citizens’ lives seemed to have paid off when the United States this weekend joined Israel’s military operation ...

For a man who has had “a very busy year”, Gabriele Finaldi is remarkably poised when we meet in his modern office nestled behind thousands of years of priceless masterpieces. As director of the ...

The antithesis of trickle-down economics is education In our unequal society, not all of us will inherit wealth—but we can all learn ...

Ryan Gilbey, long one of the UK’s most astute and exuberant critics, is not so sure. “Subtext is now text – and greater visibility can feel like a diminished presence,” he writes in his newly ...

I’ve been reflecting a great deal on why the majority for the assisted dying bill was cut so severely. I rather despair of the MPs who changed their minds. They are clearly influenced by tendentious ...

In this week’s Q&A, Alan and Lionel are asked where they go for analysis of the situation in the Middle East, including the Israel-Iran war. They also discuss diversity in journalism and how cuts have ...

Why allegations of BBC bias on Israel are becoming hard to reconcile The BBC is criticised—from both sides—for its reporting on Israel. A kind of groupthink is setting in that means there is no room ...

On 11th April, a few hundred people living with Parkinson’s—victims and their caregivers—gathered in a square across from the Palace of Westminster for, of all things, a singalong. Aimed at members of ...

For applicants looking to stand out in today’s crowded job market, a paper qualification may not always be enough. Increasingly, employers value hands-on experience and industry knowledge, as well as ...

Let us start with what is not new. Political violence is not new, either from those with power or from those without power. Indeed the earliest organised communities—“polities”—may have come into ...

Street-based sex workers tell me it is similar for them—there would be direct confrontations if someone was perceived to be negatively affecting another’s income, and colleagues often informally set ...

Twenty years of the best superhero movie ever made Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy gives us a complex, credible Batman alongside the blockbuster spectacle ...