Our new investigation reveals the problems with Palantir’s NHS tech - and the unrivalled political access that fuelled the firm’s march into the British state

Writer and artist Adrian Duncan shares his thoughts on The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies by Jo Lloyd

A 50-min film centred around the National Emergency Briefing. The frank facts, but also the huge opportunity if Government steps up and leads a WW2-scale response. Designed to be watched by communitie...

A review of Anton Jäger’s “Hyperpolitics”

El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers

Young men punched in the street, mosques attacked: Britain badly needs an anti-racist uprising. Let 70s Asian youth movements provide the inspiration, says Taj Ali, author of Come What May, We’re Here...

M. John Harrison was born in 1945. He published his first story in 1966 and his first novel, The Committed Men, in 1968. Climbers won the Boardman Tasker prize for Mountain Literature in 1989. His …

Critical theorists like Theodor Adorno may have overreached in claiming that all mass culture is mediocre, mechanized propaganda made to justify the status quo. But that doesn’t mean they were entirel...

On the 20th of October, join the Women's Irish Network and Kit De Waal for an evening of creative writing. Book now.

It’s nearly a year and a half since my mum died and I miss her terribly. I want to talk to her, ask her advice, hang out in her beautiful flat (now sold), laugh, feel frustrated, all of it. Just after...

Praised by Raymond Chandler as one of the best suspense writers of her era, the American writer Elisabeth Sanxay Holding produced eighteen crime novels and many short stories over the course of her…

A roundup of books I read in July and August 2026 including several titles for WIT Month.

Podcast Episode · Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan · 20 September · 52min

‘Something Followed Us Home’ editor and author Cynthia Pelayo recommends 10 books by Latine authors that explore homes and other places where we may sleep as places of fear and dread

Here’s a rare piece of heartening tech news to buoy you toward the weekend: A West of Ireland data center objected to by novelist Sally Rooney has just had its planning permission overturned …