I’m a former NHS manager who sits on the assisted dying committee. I’m convinced we can craft a law that is both fair and secure ...

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 ...

The Kennedy Center is not as strategically important as the Panama Canal, nor as mineral-rich as Greenland or Ukraine, but, for more than 50 years, this white marble building on the Potomac River in ...

Emmy Noether is responsible for an idea so important that it ranks alongside Charles Darwin’s concept of evolution by natural selection as a central and unifying principle in science. It made possible ...

As a sex worker, I would never let a client buy me a house ...

This unusual exhibition at Eastbourne’s Towner Gallery shows that—for all the publicity given to more innovative genres—the simple, fundamental art of making marks on paper with pen, pencil, charcoal ...

The collapse of what we may soon have to stop calling “the west” is happening with frightening speed. Donald Trump is ditching democratic values, withdrawing from the defence of Europe and hatching an ...

If you’re finding the hype and doom about artificial intelligence bewildering, you’re not alone. Hundreds of billions are pouring into technologies which, if you believe Bill Gates, could solve ...

This article is part of a series from countries that have experienced an authoritarian turn from democracy. Access the rest of the symposium here For Israeli progressives, the spectacle of the Trump ...

Of the 650 MPs in the British parliament, one inevitably boasts the smallest majority in the country. In July 2024, this dubious honour was bestowed upon Labour MP David Pinto-Duschinsky, who won the ...

Why stage Richard II in 2025? Perhaps, post-Brexit, because it kicks off Shakespeare’s eight-play retelling of the Wars of the Roses, a conflict which saw England so riven with internal division that ...

As the UK government prepares to launch a new Child Poverty Strategy in 2025, this event will examine the country’s record on child poverty over the last 15 years, the impact of the Child Poverty Act ...