The world feels bleak—and this sense of collective malaise has led me to seek sanctuary in all sorts of small pleasures: literature, classical music (Debussy, Vaughan Williams), animals and my ...

Sweden’s deputy prime minister, Ebba Busch, is pictured addressing the country’s parliament. The caption on the photo, shared on X on 4th January, says she is proposing a burqa ban. At length come the ...

Recently, I saw a new client who had an intellectual disability. Visiting his home, and seeing how he lived, gave me a stark reminder of all the ways in which vulnerable people can fall through the ...

You, the great-nephew of the late Herbert S Sinclair, stand to inherit a 45-room mansion. Except there’s a catch: you’ve got to find the hidden 46th room to come into your new property. What follows ...

Thirty years ago, when I reported on politics for BBC Newsnight, we occasionally dipped our toes in the murky waters of political theory. As ours was a television programme, we needed pictures. Which ...

Earlier this month José Antonio Kast, the son of a former Nazi officer who is also an admirer of the military dictator Augusto Pinochet, won the Chilean presidential election on a familiar platform.

One day in early December, the American comic Emily Bonani posted a video to Instagram captioned “Studying the Geese Show”. “A couple of months ago, I met a man who was on his way to a Geese show,” ...

In 2022, Cory Doctorow coined a term to describe how the internet has decayed at the hands of tech giants, making the digital world a far worse place. His neologism, “enshittification”, was named the ...