It is a truth, though sadly not one universally acknowledged, that what you think of religion largely depends on what you think is religion. If you believe religion to be primarily a means of ...

Thirty years ago, when I reported on politics for BBC Newsnight, we occasionally dipped our toes in the murky waters of political theory. As ours was a television programme, we needed pictures. Which ...

You, the great-nephew of the late Herbert S Sinclair, stand to inherit a 45-room mansion. Except there’s a catch: you’ve got to find the hidden 46th room to come into your new property. What follows ...

Ryan Murphy is the demon king of television. He is the producer, and now sometime writer and director, who brought us Glee, American Horror Story and, more recently, a series of ethically nauseating ...

When the saga of the double-decapitation of the two most senior BBC executives comes to be written, historians might care to trace it back to Dougie Smith, a shadowy backroom fixer once described as ...

Palantir seemed an obvious contender to implement the government’s digital ID plans, but the company’s UK chief was adamant he didn’t want the job. At the start of October, less than a week after Keir ...

In the last year, the United States has transitioned from flawed liberal democracy to competitive authoritarianism. In this new regime, institutions as diverse as universities, law firms and news ...

“LinkedIn doesn’t know me anymore,” someone complained to me recently. “What do you mean?” I asked. She explained that the platform has replaced the old “recommended jobs” section, which used to show ...

Talking about racism and antisemitism can get you into trouble, as Diane Abbott knows well. The MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington has been suspended from the Labour Party for a second time for ...

Its owners do, however, have one problem. “That overflow pipe,” said Dawn Farnworth, who established By the Wye with her husband, Steve, five years ago. “It never just trickles out, it gushes out.

When I was first asked to write this column, among the editor’s requests were that I serve as “a guide through the climate crisis”. To do so, I tend to look for solutions, be they nature-based or ...

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 ...