Masked agents abducting lawful foreign residents into unmarked vans; unconstitutional deportations to El Salvador; the arrest of a Congresswoman conducting oversight of an immigration centre; ...

In late January, Nigel Farage stood in front of a packed Reform party fundraiser in Oswald’s, an exclusive private members’ club in Mayfair, central London. Farage encouraged the 100-strong crowd to ...

This month our family of writers is in a whimsical mood: Vitali Vitaliev reflects on the very different purpose toilet paper once had in Soviet Ukraine, while Anglican priest Alice Goodman laments the ...

Once upon a time Birmingham was described as “the best-governed city in the world”. The description was made in 1890 by New York’s august Harper’s magazine: The 1890 article went on for 12 pages, and ...

The American constitution is creaking at the seams. The founding fathers got many things right, but ultimately their imagination failed them. They could not, in their worst nightmares, conceive of a ...

When Alvi Choudhury opened his door to two police officers in January, he assumed they wanted footage from his video doorbell. “Hello officers, I’m not in trouble, am I?” he joked. “Alvi, right?” one ...

It was around 1980 that Paul Marshall, a keen Christian undergraduate at Oxford, went to a presentation by the evangelical aid agency Tearfund. He was so impressed by the call for Christians to help ...

In this episode of Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat, an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists ...

In 2024, Florida loosened its rules on teenagers working—clearing the way for youngsters to toil longer shifts, including at night, and allowing parents to waive a cap on term-time labour. In 2025, ...

When the saga of the double-decapitation of the two most senior BBC executives comes to be written, historians might care to trace it back to Dougie Smith, a shadowy backroom fixer once described as ...

Some news outlets insist that London is a city in crisis—but who profits from that message? On the first anniversary of the launch of London Centric, its founder and owner Jim Waterson joins Alan and ...

In the last year, the United States has transitioned from flawed liberal democracy to competitive authoritarianism. In this new regime, institutions as diverse as universities, law firms and news ...