Gentiles have been imagining Jews seated together at a ritual table sipping gentile blood for millennia. The Greco-Egyptian scholar Apion, living in Egypt in the first century CE, recorded an instance ...

The “Wagatha Christie” case requires at least three things to be explained. The first is how, in legal and practical terms, Colleen Rooney won and Rebekah Vardy lost. And to understand this, we can ...

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 ...

Few historical figures have been discussed and debated as much as Adolf Hitler. We have a wealth of primary source material available to us about his life, including his autobiographical manifesto ...

Less than 18 months after Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves swept to power, some whisper that next week’s budget could finish them off. With borrowing high and growth low, the pair might plead that it ...

In a world of unpredictable strongman leaders, do nuclear weapons keep us safe or make us more vulnerable? This week, Ellen and Alona are joined by Serhii Plokhy, historian and author of The Nuclear ...

Right-wing social media accounts went to town this week on Cat Eccles, a Labour MP who, they said, had accused the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, of “trying to appease the electorate” with this week ...

A few years ago my London-born wife announced that she was homesick. Unsettled by the Covid pandemic and liberated by my retirement from regular employment, she wanted us to move to the city she had ...

Within 15 months of its landslide 1997 election victory, New Labour had made ending rough sleeping and reducing homelessness a defining mission. Within 24 months that government had established a ...

Centrism used to be such a nice word. Cast your mind back to the 1990s, when Bill Clinton championed the “vital center” and Tony Blair’s Third Way was electorally unstoppable. In the afterglow of the ...

If, like me, you missed the October 2024 episode of BBC’s Panorama, you may well have wondered about the fallout it engendered: the resignations of two of the broadcaster’s top executives, a ...