Immigration has always been an excuse or accelerant for far-right terrorism. In the 1940s, the right-wing Jewish terrorist group the Irgun engaged in terrorist acts not out of xenophobia, but to ...

Dominic Sandbrook is the author of “Never Had it So Good” (Abacus) and is finishing a book on the 1970s ...

“I almost worship him as if he were a god. I have never felt such an extravagant admiration for anybody.” So the 22-year-old Bertrand Russell wrote to his fiancée Alys Pearsall Smith in November 1894.

The recently assassinated right-wing activist Charlie Kirk built his celebrity around a table, a sign—“Prove me wrong”—and a formula. On campuses across the United States, he invited students to ...

Hand-wringing about the state of reading is rife. Children aren’t reading, (many) adults aren’t reading and universities are contending with “post-literate” students: freshers who have come of age on ...

In 1978 President Jimmy Carter gave a speech praising a new National Solar Energy Research Institute, and extolling the sun’s “inexhaustible sources of energy. No cartel controls the sun.” He even ...

The Labour government is struggling and the party is divided. Meanwhile, Reform is on the rise, and the Tories are collapsing. What kind of change does Labour need, if it is to get back on track? This ...

“Andy Burnham did actually come to talk about electoral reform,” the compere quipped, after the fact. The Manchester mayor, aka the King of the North, aka the man who may have timed a leadership bid ...

Spend time with supporters of emerging AI technologies such as chatbots and you’ll hear an oft-repeated phrase: “The worst it will ever be.” This quote, from the Wharton professor and AI booster Ethan ...

This week’s special episode of Media Confidential coincides with ITV’s new drama The Hack, about the phone-hacking scandal which led to the closure of the News of the World, the Leveson Inquiry, and a ...

From time to time you hear the cranking of the constitution of the United Kingdom as it works. It is a strange but welcome noise. Constitutional commentary is usually about how things are not as they ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky—rigorous dialectician and grand inquisitor into the human soul—is having a moment. The American “new right” has enlisted the Russian author in the debate over “cancel culture”; and, ...