Louis Fishman is an associate professor at Brooklyn College who divides his time between Turkey, the US and Israel, and writes about Turkish and Israeli-Palestinian affairs ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
What do they say on LinkedIn? Some personal news? Whatever. I’m one of the judges for this year’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction—and I had the signal pleasure of revealing the shortlist of six ...
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, ...
The question is so straightforward that it’s almost insulting to ask it: if you think yourself a supporter of democracy can you act as cheerleader for a man who is palpably, beyond doubt, not in any ...