Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s legal text is section 13 of the Criminal ...

A group of Israeli women and men, dressed in black, stood in a line in Tel Aviv last Wednesday evening, 7th May, holding empty pots in their outstretched arms. One woman held a sign that read, in ...

At the Truth Tellers summit in London, Alan and Lionel sit down with Mark Thompson, the CEO of American media giant CNN. Mark is asked if he has sat down with Trump since he started in office. Does he ...

If you are one of the 800m users of ChatGPT, you may have noticed that the chatbot seems to be developing a distinctive “voice”—favoured words, an identifiable tone, recognisable ways of starting ...

I write this with my T-shirt still sodden with rain. After the driest spring in 69 years, the water butts in my garden ran dry in May. Normally, that happens in July or August or not at all. Desperate ...

After seizing control of ten councils this month, the Reform party has dramatically reshaped England’s local politics. The insurgent party, which won 677 council seats out of roughly 1,600, as well as ...

Kim Leadbeater’s supporters are braced for a barrage of attacks intended to persuade MPs that support is slipping away from the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill just as it returns to the ...

This week, Ellen and Alona are joined by Canadian historian Quinn Slobodian. The rise of the populist right is often framed as a backlash against neoliberalism—a revolt by those “left behind” by ...

A man sits with his arms folded across his legs, his head bowed against his knees. Another lies flat like a starfish face down on the floor. A third sits with his hand to his ear, listening for ...

A decade ago, Nigel Farage became spiritual leader of the Conservative party, when David Cameron conceded a referendum on Brexit which Farage won. A repeat performance is now taking place on the issue ...

Edmund Fairfax-Lucy was laying a carpet in his home at Charlecote Park when his heart gave out. The previous week, he’d felt a sharp pain in his chest but dismissed it. Presumably, the incident ...

Conservatives who advocate an electoral pact with Reform might usefully start with a short news item in the Times of 3rd October 1903. It reported that the Liberals would run only one candidate in the ...