Listening to Donald Trump, there’s a point when you begin to feel your brain dying. Words don’t come, and sentences will not form; the language simply isn’t up to dealing with the shamelessness and ...

More than 40 years ago it used to be called voluntary euthanasia, and there was even a sleepy little society which advocated for the cause. It was run by a retired railway union official called Bob.

Alan Rusbridger, editor: Let me turn to you first, Brenda. Should assisted dying be legal? Brenda Hale: My view is public knowledge, because I wrote a judgment [in 2014] in a case brought by Tony ...

Americans have a special term to describe a president who has lost an election in November but has to remain in office until the following January. This year, however, that term was being used to ...

The United Kingdom accepted the weakness of its legal and diplomatic position by assenting to transfer the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands—nominally the “British Indian Ocean Territory”—to Mauritius ...

The recent outbreak of Sturm und Drang at Westminster has now calmed down. Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff, Sue Gray, is off, perhaps never to return. The experiment is over, but not before a ...

Since 2022, the year that Andrew Tate first went viral online, a spectre has haunted headlines, school playgrounds and children’s smartphones: the rise in anti-feminism among boys. This often-violent ...

Alan and Lionel are joined by Michael Lewis, the journalist and bestselling author of The Big Short and The Blind Side. His new book Going Infinite chronicles the rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, ...

On Thursday, Israel confirmed it had “eliminated” Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who masterminded the 7th October attacks on southern Israel. The news of his death made headlines worldwide, leading ...

“I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommend the measures that a stricken nation in the midst of a stricken world may require,” said the new leader, to counter the mood of national ...

When Keir Starmer this week pledged to the global investors he’d summoned to London that he would clear pesky regulations out of their way, he stood in a long line going back, at least, to the young ...

I've always thought of autumn as a season of quiet shedding—it prepares us for a world that will be shutting down and then sit dormant. Since moving from London to the foot of the Cambrian mountains ...