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Margaret Hodge: Where the Elgin marbles should reside is an impossible question

The politician and life peer on her favourite book, idol and the podcasts she can’t live without

Francis Fukuyama takes stock

We speak to the man who was unfairly caricatured after declaring ‘the end of history’—and today sees no end in sight

Carlo Rovelli’s romantic pragmatism

The Doomsday clock is ticking. The physicist believes it’s not too late to turn it back

A lawyer’s lonely fight for democracy inside Hong Kong

Recently convicted of ‘subversion’ in Hong Kong, Chow Hang-tung is still fighting for freedom

Richard Dadd’s messages from bedlam

A new exhibition of the artist’s work is a revelation. Could he have produced these paintings without his institutionalisation?

Should Trump set up an AI sovereign wealth fund?

For all the talk of an AI boom, Anthropic and Open AI may be seeking insurance against regulation, Chinese competition, and their struggle for p…

The death of Jason Arday: A modern media morality play

Alan and Lionel on why Fleet Street’s crusade against DEI went so wrong

Afghanistan is starving and the world is looking away

Amid aid cuts and extreme weather, we are turning away everybody that comes to our centres for help because we have no food to give them

The capacious humanism of Victor Hugo

Penguin has recently installed the French author’s last novel, ‘Ninety-Three’, in its line of Classics. The new translation is revelatory

Kemi Badenoch is creating a new—and very odd—type of Tory party

In her upside-down leadership, former neo-Nazis can run as councillors, but anyone hoping to stop the world burn is banned

Call this a hot summer? This phenomenon explains why next year may be worse

El Niño is yet to peak, bringing more heat to an already burning planet

The Trump administration is many things. But it is not fascist

He doesn’t seek to strengthen the state, but to dismantle it—and all for his own personal gain

New hope for the newsroom?

Alan and Lionel are joined by the editor-in-chief of a revolutionary new Danish media organisation. Plus, the editors critique the first edition…

The changing art of protest

Artists have addressed politics until time immemorial. But the way in which they address it is constantly changing

Ars gratia vitae

The author has chosen to counter violence with something stronger—his art. Do the rest of us have the courage to follow?

The mystery of the Russian “Z”

Sometimes referred to as a “zwastika”, why did Putin’s forces settle on a Roman rather than Cyrillic letter for their campaign of destruction?

Hammer & tickle

Communism is the only political system to have created its own international brand of comedy. The standard interpretation is that communist joke…

Yes, they might win votes off Sinn Féin—but long term, the DUP's abortion stance could harm them

The idea of Sinn Féin voters backing the DUP over abortion isn't as absurd as it sounds. But the prevailing trend goes the other way