My encounters with Alfred Brendel The master pianist died recently, aged 94. Even into that old age, he was constantly, excitedly making new discoveries ...

This week’s guest on Media Confidential is Anthony Scaramucci, financier and former communications director at the White House. He now co-hosts The Rest is Politics US podcast. Anthony argues that the ...

The number of rebels on the government’s disability benefit overhaul has now reached a point where passage of the plans depends on ministers winning some of them back. The thrust of the emerging charm ...

Over the last 20 months, in quick succession, Israel has subdued its enemies on all sides. Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Putin-backed Assad regime in Syria, and now Iran’s revolutionary ...

This week, Ellen and Alona are joined by journalist James Bloodworth to discuss his new book Lost Boys: A personal journey through the manosphere.

The enormous gamble that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken with his citizens’ lives seemed to have paid off when the United States this weekend joined Israel’s military operation ...

For a man who has had “a very busy year”, Gabriele Finaldi is remarkably poised when we meet in his modern office nestled behind thousands of years of priceless masterpieces. As director of the ...

The antithesis of trickle-down economics is education In our unequal society, not all of us will inherit wealth—but we can all learn ...

Ryan Gilbey, long one of the UK’s most astute and exuberant critics, is not so sure. “Subtext is now text – and greater visibility can feel like a diminished presence,” he writes in his newly ...

I’ve been reflecting a great deal on why the majority for the assisted dying bill was cut so severely. I rather despair of the MPs who changed their minds. They are clearly influenced by tendentious ...

In this week’s Q&A, Alan and Lionel are asked where they go for analysis of the situation in the Middle East, including the Israel-Iran war. They also discuss diversity in journalism and how cuts have ...