Tim Harford delivers the 2026 Baggs Memorial Happiness Lecture in its 50th Anniversary year.

Duncan McLean's tale of love and dairy produce is inspired by Ann Scott-Moncrieff's poem.

What I learned on the board of the IWM

Party’s higher education spokesperson calls for all university students to have at least English and maths GCSEs

Wife of Jamaica-born sociologist says project celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ he made to Britain’s culture Whether it was Thatcherism, populism or the story of the Sony Walkman, Stuart Hall was a public intellectual famed for defining the times. Now a major digital archive of his previously unpublished papers, notebooks, recordings and videos has been launched. The Jamaica-born sociologist and seminal figure in postwar Black British history died in 2014 aged 82, with his obituary in the Guardian saying he was “among the first to identify key questions of the age”. Hall coined the term Thatcherism and in 1985 warned of the dangers of “authoritarian populism”. Continue reading...

In 1927, The Jazz Singer made movie history with the first recorded dialogue on film - but new evidence suggests the first feature talking film was Scottish.

Bestselling author and Conservative politician whose scandal-ridden career ended with a prison sentence

Stanley Chow’s cartoon was put on water bottles at party conference with the slogan ‘Bottler Burnham’

Bad business decisions have been blamed for the decision to shut entire departments — as academics protest it is students who suffer