Alan and Lionel are joined by Michael Lewis, the journalist and bestselling author of The Big Short and The Blind Side. His new book Going Infinite chronicles the rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, ...

The United Kingdom accepted the weakness of its legal and diplomatic position by assenting to transfer the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands—nominally the “British Indian Ocean Territory”—to Mauritius ...

Americans have a special term to describe a president who has lost an election in November but has to remain in office until the following January. This year, however, that term was being used to ...

This week, Ellen and Alona talk to investigative journalist Peter Geoghegan. Peter is the former editor-in-chief of the award-winning website openDemocracy and is the author of Democracy for Sale: ...

What do they say on LinkedIn? Some personal news? Whatever. I’m one of the judges for this year’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction—and I had the signal pleasure of revealing the shortlist of six ...

Labour’s latest reform of the House of Lords will make virtually no difference to the Upper House or to the operation of parliament, either in principle or in practice. Which is a pity, because ...

“I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommend the measures that a stricken nation in the midst of a stricken world may require,” said the new leader, to counter the mood of national ...

Since 2022, the year that Andrew Tate first went viral online, a spectre has haunted headlines, school playgrounds and children’s smartphones: the rise in anti-feminism among boys. This often-violent ...

When Keir Starmer this week pledged to the global investors he’d summoned to London that he would clear pesky regulations out of their way, he stood in a long line going back, at least, to the young ...

The question is so straightforward that it’s almost insulting to ask it: if you think yourself a supporter of democracy can you act as cheerleader for a man who is palpably, beyond doubt, not in any ...

Tanni Grey-Thompson is telling me about her concerns with “inspiration porn”—a term she assures me I can safely google. It refers, she tells me, to the way the media talk about disabled people “as if ...

Listening to Donald Trump, there’s a point when you begin to feel your brain dying. Words don’t come, and sentences will not form; the language simply isn’t up to dealing with the shamelessness and ...