Writing a proper biography of Shakespeare is virtually impossible given the shortage of hard data about him. Actually, it’s not that limited for someone who lived 400 years ago, and who never got ...

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The words left Gisèle Pelicot’s lips with disarming calm, yet in the Nîmes courtroom they struck like a gavel—an indictment of French justice itself. Behind her, rows of women—journalists, activists ...

There have been two recent remarkable events concerning national security law in the United Kingdom. The first was a prosecution which collapsed. The case was about alleged spies in the offices of ...

It doesn’t take much these days to be marked out as a “rising star” in the current Conservative Party, or what remains of it. But in recent weeks, the hitherto unknown MP for the Weald of Kent, Katie ...

If any idea could unite a fragmented Britain, it might be that we are suffering a free speech crisis. The political left points to the proscription of Palestine Action and the mass arrest of ...

“What’s it a picture of?” asked Theo, angry with himself that he had never heard of the painting and knew nothing of the artist. “An execution. One that’s about to happen, and the kneeling man with ...

When I last spoke with the historian Sudhir Hazareesingh we were talking about Black Spartacus, his prizewinning biography of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture. Now, we’re meeting again ...

Andrew Adonis (What actually happens if we leave the ECHR?) acknowledges that the United Kingdom may well withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) even if the Conservatives or ...

The scene in Hostages Square, Tel Aviv, on Thursday afternoon was one of nervous relief rather than joy. There had been too many false dawns for anyone to start unbridled celebrations. The giant ...

In this week’s special episode, Alan and Lionel are grilled by Sheffield University’s third-year Broadcast Journalism students. The pair are asked about using artificial intelligence in newsrooms, how ...

As transport secretary in the late 2000s, I visited a huge battery products factory in Beijing. It mostly churned out mobile phones for Nokia but was developing a new line in fast acceleration ...