Where would you expect to encounter a French MP? Probably in the National Assembly, sporting one of the expensive navy suits that are fashionable in the Macron government. But, when I meet Raphaël ...

Donald Trump spends most of his time campaigning before rapturous white voters, who are the base of his Maga movement. But on Wednesday, with only weeks left in the election, he was in an unfamiliar ...

Is Donald Trump a singular political genius? Or a useful idiot steered by savvier acolytes? In the immediate aftermath of his 2016 victory, observers careered between portraying Trump as an ...

Alan Rusbridger, editor: Let me turn to you first, Brenda. Should assisted dying be legal? Brenda Hale: My view is public knowledge, because I wrote a judgment [in 2014] in a case brought by Tony ...

Over 100 days and one “reset” in and the commentariat agree: to recover from a poor start Labour urgently needs a story, a big or biggish overarching narrative about who the government is, what it ...

The front page of the New York Times on the morning of 13th December 2000 announced that the US Supreme Court had awarded a closely contested presidential election to George W Bush. The banner ...

In this week’s Q&A, Alan and Lionel are back with a postbag of questions. One listener wonders if AI makes exposing the truth almost impossible, while another asks for some insider tips for new ...

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 ...

More than 40 years ago it used to be called voluntary euthanasia, and there was even a sleepy little society which advocated for the cause. It was run by a retired railway union official called Bob.

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 ...

As a young internet scholar, I was once asked to give a talk at a conference in the small town of Kalocsa, Hungary. The conference was called “The Internet: By 2015, It Will Be Entirely Unavoidable”, ...

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 ...