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Today’s EU-UK summit is historic. It’s the first formal gathering of this group since Brexit, bringing together the president of the European Council António Costa, the European Commission president ...
Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s document is the 1985 treaty which gave ...
If there were any hopes that Trump’s visit to the Middle East would bring an end to Israel’s war in Gaza, these have been dashed. On Wednesday, in his first press conference in Israel since December ...
I am staring at an icon of the Raising of Lazarus when the world begins to spin around me. It is a sunny Saturday afternoon and I am wandering around the Byzantine and Christian Museum of Athens, ...
Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s legal texts are section 19 of the Public ...
When the eighth and supposedly last Mission Impossible film, The Final Reckoning, is released this week, there will be little discussion of its writer-director Christopher McQuarrie or its talented ...
This week on Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by Joseph Kahn, executive editor of the New York Times. Alan, Lionel and Joe discuss editing in the time of Trump, why US media ...
As I reported a couple of weeks ago, either Delaware or New York would become the 11th state to make assisted dying legal. Delaware now has that distinction after the new governor signed it in law, ...
What exactly is the point of Donald Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social? For some time, no one could give a convincing answer—until now, perhaps. At first, Truth Social had an obvious ...
Everything about this week’s UK-EU deal was overhyped on both sides. For all the government bluster, it wasn’t a substantive reset. It makes practically no difference to the Tory Brexit deal. As for ...
This week, Ellen and Alona are joined by journalist Nicola Kelly, whose new book Anywhere But Here investigates the UK’s broken asylum system. Nicola used to work for the Home Office as a press ...