Donald Trump likes to talk up his links to Britain, his Hebridean mother and Scottish golf courses. But the appreciation has largely been one way: David Lammy’s description of the president elect as a ...

When Alvi Choudhury opened his door to two police officers in January, he assumed they wanted footage from his video doorbell. “Hello officers, I’m not in trouble, am I?” he joked. “Alvi, right?” one ...

In 1996 and 1997, the reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov played a series of games against Deep Blue, an IBM supercomputer optimised to compete against humans in tournament conditions.

Has GB News effectively become Reform TV? That’s the accusation suggested to me by the person who helped set the channel up, Andrew Neil, and it seems borne out by research. If true, then the next ...

It was around 1980 that Paul Marshall, a keen Christian undergraduate at Oxford, went to a presentation by the evangelical aid agency Tearfund. He was so impressed by the call for Christians to help ...

When Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf told the Times last week that Christianity was “core to the history and the DNA of the country”, you might think he was merely stating the obvious. In fact, this was the ...

Twelfth November was an unremarkable day in British politics. Another day when the topic of debate wasn’t one of voters’ main concerns—immigration or healthcare, say, or the budget, or the farmers—but ...

Late in life, the 18th-century French liberal thinker Abbé Sieyès was asked what he had done during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. He replied, “I ...

In the last year, the United States has transitioned from flawed liberal democracy to competitive authoritarianism. In this new regime, institutions as diverse as universities, law firms and news ...

Talking about racism and antisemitism can get you into trouble, as Diane Abbott knows well. The MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington has been suspended from the Labour Party for a second time for ...

Masked agents abducting lawful foreign residents into unmarked vans; unconstitutional deportations to El Salvador; the arrest of a Congresswoman conducting oversight of an immigration centre; ...

This week, writer and activist Laura Bates joins Ellen and Alona to discuss her latest book The New Age of Sexism. Best known for founding the Everyday Sexism project in 2012, Laura has spent more ...