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 ...

From the downfall of London's iconic daily to the perils of shorthand exams, Alan and Lionel answer listeners’ questions about the media In this episode of Media Confidential Q&A, Alan Rusbridger and ...

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 ...

Some men hate women. And some go online to talk about it. On Reddit, there are whole groups—subreddits—which appear to be dedicated to blaming women for everything. One group called “r/MensRights” has ...

Over a deliriously unruly 520 pages of social history, The Freaks Came Out to Write maps the story of the Voice from its founding in 1955 to its current status as a title which, despite various ...

I want to tell you about Val. I am introduced to her through the words of her daughter, Sofia, who is addressing a commemorative hearing at the Lampard Inquiry at Chelmsford Civic Centre. The inquiry ...

Labour’s popularity tracked the hockey stick when Keir Starmer was leader of the opposition in the last parliament. It dipped badly during his first 18 months, then recovered over the next six months ...

Rachel Reeves’s warmly received Labour conference speech contained the headline of an argument—but not an argument. The “warmly received” bit is worth registering, because amid this bizarrely terrible ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...