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 ...

Few former White House officials would find themselves listed in a terror watch file, but Stephen Miller is not just any official. Not that the Trump White House is a ...

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

Historians will debate for ever and a day why the second Donald Trump government was so much more extreme than his first. So extreme that Trump’s second term, if unchecked, could launch a revolution ...

In 1983, architect Peter Calthorpe gave up on San Francisco, where he had tried and failed to organise neighbourhood communities, and moved to a houseboat in Sausalito, a town on the San Francisco Bay ...

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 ...

Since the summer, Keir Starmer has taken to lashing out at Nigel Farage. Last week he branded Farage’s immigration policy as “racist” and “immoral”; in his Labour party conference speech yesterday, ...

“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 ...

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 ...

In October 2023, Brechin, a Scottish town near the North Sea, was hit by a wall of water that changed it forever. During Storm Babet, a record 150 to 200mm of rain fell in parts of the area. The ...

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 ...