At times, I have wished I knew less about the suffering to wildlife. But despair is something I can’t afford—not least because there are things I can ...

Far from being a fearless free-speech warrior, the late columnist did little more than tickle his readers’ bellies

The journalist on Afghanistan’s future—and the cost of exile

Even in the face of appalling repression, girls yearn to fulfil their educational potential. We must set up a global fund to help them, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown

A judge rules against a complex high-value fund being created without legislation or oversight by a court

This vindication of sorts for Paul Dacre’s newsrooms has exposed a style of journalism we must leave far behind

Bans and threats against US companies will lead governments to develop their own tools, and they could use Chinese code to do it

Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake

Despite their team’s long history of failure, England fans are hooked on the most toxic drug of all: hope

Labour lacks a philosophy or a plan for government. A few simple changes could transform the country’s fortunes

The most urgent subject of our age is still part of the culture wars

The platform that helped creators earn now has little choice but to play social media giants and Substack at their own game

Lawsuits and bans threaten social media’s future. But the case that these platforms cause addiction and harm is far from proven

The tournament is the global festival of our times: a story of carbon, corruption, migration and hope

The Restore leader and Maga favourite is challenging Nigel Farage on his right, and could block Reform’s route to power

In the war between artists and AI, weirdness may be humanity’s greatest asset

Plaid and Reform represent two new, competing nationalist identities. Welsh Labour never grasped these shifts, nor its own failures

The market is not punishing the challengers to Starmer; it is rejecting the Prime Minister himself

Much like the century in which he lived, the poet was—is—hard to pin down. A new biography makes an admirable attempt

And this problem pre-dates the defeat of Meta and Google in the Kaley GM jury trial

The Afghan war crimes inquiry continues to throw light on alleged crimes by UK special forces and their possible cover-up

Britain has avoided being dragged into the war. But we are already feeling its effects

Recent police raids show the authorities are clamping down not just on protest, but the very idea of it

Washington has immense military power at its disposal—but no idea how to secure a meaningful victory

As a new biography shows, Wittgenstein is eternally relevant—perhaps especially as we grapple with chatbots and large language models

The novelist has battled—is battling—death. His latest book is funereal in more ways than one

Whether they are charged with keeping our news impartial, our water clean or our elections fair, Britain’s regulators are dozing

How do we apply moral standards to a president that rejects any form of restraint?

This festival of schadenfreude is crasser than any post from a Palm Jumeirah beach club