I’m sitting at my desk looking at Procter and Frere’s A New History of the Book of Common Prayer, and thinking of our ...

The violence in Gaza—credibly identified as genocide by scholars and legal experts alike—has now unfolded for over 600 days. This warfare against Palestinians living there is backed by the US ...

The best way to attract attention in the crowded space of technology is to make bold claims. AI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, director of the AI Futures Project, a research group based in California, ...

Listen to Laurence “Lozza” Fox’s dog whistle: “You cannot hate them enough,” he posted on Elon Musk’s X, in reaction to a carefully neutral breaking Sky News story about a car ploughing into Liverpool ...

For all the dramatic “war readiness” rhetoric around this week’s strategic defence review, little has changed in the UK’s actual defence posture. Our security strategy is still to expect—or at least ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the Truth Tellers summit in London, Alan and Lionel sit down with Mark Thompson, the CEO of American media giant CNN. Mark is asked if he has sat down with Trump since he started in office. Does he ...

This week, Ellen and Alona are joined by Canadian historian Quinn Slobodian. The rise of the populist right is often framed as a backlash against neoliberalism—a revolt by those “left behind” by ...

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 ...

Politics might be polarised but there is one thing that everyone can agree on: the country is in a mess. Our economy is stuck. Our public services are overwhelmed. Public trust in politics is shot.