Two big comebacks this week—Phillip Schofield and Michael Gove—and who is to say which is the most ground-shaking? One involves confronting “total isolation…and provides the time to battle within his ...

Tim Snyder: Why a Trump victory is a threat to freedom Jon Sopel on meeting Donald Trump—and the BBC’s “mess” ...

Lynchotopia is an afterworld where “all lynch victims go”. On New Year’s Eve, the Keeper of Records, a rope around his neck, announces how many lynch victims died that year, and everyone debates who ...

Gazan pupils didn’t attend school for the whole of last year. Had such a gap year occurred in peaceful circumstances, I would have envied them. I grew up in a refugee camp in the south of Lebanon in ...

When JD Vance was asked in August 2016 if he knew many people who planned to vote for Donald Trump, he was unequivocal. “A lot of people in my family, my neighbours and friends from back home. It’s a ...

You may not be too aware of it, but the outside world is waiting—and worrying, about the choice you will make on 5th November. Should you care? I suggest you should. In a world of hypersonic missiles, ...

Much of the UK hasn’t noticed, but an enormous shift could be about to happen in Welsh politics. Soon, Labour may no longer be its largest party. Welsh Labour has been the most successful democratic ...

When Donald Trump wrote—or should we say, put his name to?—his 1997 book The Art of the Comeback, he’d had quite some experience of its subject. Here was a self-proclaimed master of the deal who, by ...

Alan and Lionel are joined by Yale history professor and leading scholar of Soviet Russia, Tim Snyder. Snyder’s new book, On Freedom, explores the risks to shared freedom in a “post-truth” world. He ...

Mayhem, disorder, racism. Many words were bandied about to describe the riots across the United Kingdom this summer. Anarchy was another. No surprise there: anarchism has long been associated with ...

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When we arrived at immigration in Lisbon airport, towards midnight, there were two queues. The shorter of the two was for Portuguese citizens, members of the EU and other permitted states. There were ...