Ryan Gilbey, long one of the UK’s most astute and exuberant critics, is not so sure. “Subtext is now text – and greater visibility can feel like a diminished presence,” he writes in his newly ...

In this week’s Q&A, Alan and Lionel look back over their journalistic careers and recall their toughest decisions. The former editors also discuss why they left the Guardian and the FT when they did, ...

The violence in Gaza—credibly identified as genocide by scholars and legal experts alike—has now unfolded for over 600 days. This warfare against Palestinians living there is backed by the US ...

Since launching in 2017, it has gained huge popularity with journalists and the public. Alan, Lionel and Hamish discuss what makes it fundamentally different to other social media sites, including the ...

Boleyn’s popularity isn’t new: Henry VIII’s second wife has captured every generation’s imagination. In 1682, the wildly successful melodrama Vertue Betray’d portrayed her as a piously Protestant ...

What Trump’s memecoin might lack in humour it makes up for in classy perks for its buyers. The price soared in April when he invited the top 220 holders of the coin to a private gala dinner, the top ...

In the decade or so since I was diagnosed, Parkinson’s has become the world’s fastest-growing neurological disease. Many neurologists argue that, although it is not communicable, like Covid or flu, ...

A new noun (new to me anyway) is being deployed to capture the spirit of these times: overwhelm. That feeling of it all being too much, of a sea of troubles constantly lapping over you… this is the ...