The failure to modernise the House of Lords is yet another sign of how broken Britain is You read these never-ending debates over supposedly reforming the Upper House and wonder if anything will ever ...

Why did Trump almost win? His presidency has seen many disasters. But when campaigning, Trump saw an opportunity that Biden didn't—and it proved crucial ...

London has a new place to be. I’m not a fan of theatre director Jamie Lloyd—as you’ll know if you read this column last December—but there’s no denying he knows how to put theatre at the centre of our ...

When people have asked me for TV recommendations recently, my primary answer has been the second season of Nathan Fielder’s HBO show The Rehearsal. The next question, fairly enough, tends to be: ...

This week on Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by Line Vaaben, who is ‘existential editor’ at Danish newspaper Politiken. Line and her team write stories that explore the complexities of ...

Outside the festival, the condemnation of Bob Vylan was swift. The band claimed that, actually, they were not calling for the death of Jews, only the “dismantling of a violent military regime”. But ...

Alan and Lionel are joined by Sophia Smith Galer, digital journalist, author and founder of Viralect. Sophia shares why TikTok shouldn’t be underestimated as a form of journalism, the resistance she’s ...

“I almost worship him as if he were a god. I have never felt such an extravagant admiration for anybody.” So the 22-year-old Bertrand Russell wrote to his fiancée Alys Pearsall Smith in November 1894.

F Scott Fitzgerald was fulsome in his praise and Sinclair Lewis declared it the “first book to catch Manhattan”. Published a few months after Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, John Dos Passos’s novel ...

The problem is that I already feel permanently guilty about owning too many books for my very small cottage. My passion (or should I say addiction?) goes back to my first life, in the Soviet Union, ...