The guest lecturer at Oxford on Monday was re-writing his speech in the taxi. A professor at Columbia University, New York, Jelani Cobb had just learned of the arrest and imminent deportation of one ...

May Serrano Fuertes is known as a sologamist matchmaker. She facilitates people in sologamy, a new practice of marriage or commitment to oneself. “Eleven years ago, I promised myself that I would be ...

In 2014, on a Friday night just before Christmas, the US government released a heavily redacted, non-searchable, virtually unreadable document–likely hoping that it would go unnoticed in a wash of ...

When manuscripts of Richard Osman’s first novel were doing the rounds with publishers, there was an early sign that things were going to turn out well. “I knew people were reading The Thursday Murder ...

The Leopard begins with an ending, the rosary’s concluding words: “now and at the hour of our death. Amen.” The novel’s “now” is May 1860, a moment that inaugurates the slow death of Sicily’s old ...

At the end of 2024, the Good Growth Foundation (GGF) polled thousands of Britons about their attitudes to growth. Cut to the chase: “Voters do not trust that a growing economy will improve their ...

Alan and Lionel respond to more listeners’ questions on this week’s Q&A. In a world where the news never sleeps, the editors are asked whether news coverage is proactive or reactive. They also discuss ...

Just beyond the end of Nyhavn, Copenhagen’s colourful canal district, an ominously smoking chimney punctures the horizon between sailboat masts and a cyclists’ bridge. Most tourists in town for one ...

As expected, the examining the assisted dying bill has got rid of the need for a High Court judge to approve requests for assisted dying. This clears the way for it to be replaced with, in ...

All TV programmes—all fiction of any kind, I guess—have to reckon with the problem of when to give the viewer the answers. Questions hook, answers satisfy. Once satisfied by an answer, how to keep the ...

Health and social care minister Stephen Kinnock has told PoliticsHome that he’s “comfortable” with “independent contractors” providing assisted dying if the Leadbeater bill becomes law. Kinnock, who ...