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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.

If you have turned on the radio, listened to a political podcast or flicked through a newspaper of late, you will have noticed excited chatter about something called Blue Labour. Its primary ...

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

This week’s guest on Media Confidential is Anthony Scaramucci, financier and former communications director at the White House. He now co-hosts The Rest is Politics US podcast. Anthony argues that the ...

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, ...

Often, my first reaction to news coming out of Israel and Palestine is a narcissistic one—making it all about me. When I hear about the latest horror in Gaza, I wonder: “Is now the time to speak out?” ...