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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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”, ...

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 ...

On Thursday, Israel confirmed it had “eliminated” Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who masterminded the 7th October attacks on southern Israel. The news of his death made headlines worldwide, leading ...

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 ...

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.

The recent outbreak of Sturm und Drang at Westminster has now calmed down. Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff, Sue Gray, is off, perhaps never to return. The experiment is over, but not before a ...

“I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommend the measures that a stricken nation in the midst of a stricken world may require,” said the new leader, to counter the mood of national ...