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 ...

Does “no-platforming” have a place in journalism? Alan and Lionel are joined by Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor-in-chief of the Economist.They discuss how to cover far-right politics and whether a ...

Palantir has acquired key UK government contracts, promising to make government more effective. But Peter Thiel’s controversial company has also worked with the US government and ICE on deportations ...

Palantir seemed an obvious contender to implement the government’s digital ID plans, but the company’s UK chief was adamant he didn’t want the job. At the start of October, less than a week after Keir ...

This week’s special episode of Media Confidential coincides with ITV’s new drama The Hack, about the phone-hacking scandal which led to the closure of the News of the World, the Leveson Inquiry, and a ...

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 ...

Is Britain becoming a police state? This week, Ellen and Imaan are joined by Conor Gearty, a barrister and professor of human rights law at LSE, who explains how his views on the future of protest ...

When Tommy Robinson walked out of prison on 27th May, his hair was unkempt and his beard was scraggly. The far-right activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, used his first speech since he ...

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; ...

Its owners do, however, have one problem. “That overflow pipe,” said Dawn Farnworth, who established By the Wye with her husband, Steve, five years ago. “It never just trickles out, it gushes out.

Tech leaders and industry insiders are giddy with excitement about the advances under way in artificial intelligence, whether due to the scaling up of existing models and functionalities, new ...

On 16th April the UK Supreme Court ruled that, for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, the term “sex” (and the terms “man” or “woman”) should be understood to refer solely to “biological sex”. That ...