It’s a very big week for medically aided dying in the United Kingdom, with not just one but two big parliamentary occasions, first in Edinburgh tomorrow and then in London at the end of the week. It ...

After fleeing her violent husband from another part of the UK to England and seeing the same car following her to work and back home, Emmaline* assumed she was imagining things. “I convinced myself I ...

This week on Media Confidential, journalist Harry Shukman joins Alan and Lionel to discuss his year spent infiltrating the far right. Harry’s new book Year of the Rat explores this journey. He shares ...

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 texts are section 51(6) of the Senior ...

Once, standing in the weaving shed at Queen Street Mill in Burnley, Lancashire, I listened as an employee turned on the steam engine, setting loose the sound of 300 dobby looms. They moved at a canter ...

On the London Underground at the moment there are huge eye-catching posters for a virtual private network (VPN) bearing the words: “Some might say they have nothing to hide.” VPNs, as you may know, ...

The footage was first broadcast in the early hours of 5th July 2024. On the stage, draped in his gold chain of office, the lord mayor of Leicester makes a shock announcement: an independent candidate ...

In Cambridge, Massachusetts, the sky is overcast while at the Harvard Business School, Professor Rebecca Henderson is feeling positive. An economist by training, Henderson began her academic career ...

Joining the protesters against the new inheritance tax laws affecting farmers in Westminster last November, the leader of Reform UK, Nigel Farage, wore a flat cap, checked shirt and tie, Barbour waxed ...

Around 33 AD, Saul of Tarsus was a zealous young tent-maker, “breathing out threatenings and slaughter” against followers of Jesus. He watched on approvingly as Stephen, the first Christian martyr, ...

Is it fair to criticise a nonfiction book for what it doesn’t include? Most would argue that it isn’t unless the omissions materially alter the subject being tackled. And this is where Lissa Evans’s ...

One bright September afternoon in a forest in Switzerland, a 64-year-old woman is about to die. She is standing in a clearing, in front of a purple capsule that’s just large enough to fit a human ...