The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

The idea that AI was an existential threat seemed faintly ludicrous in 2024: how could a program that simply issued a...

There were still several gendarmerie vans parked near Lycée Hélène Boucher in the 20th arrondissement at noon on...

The trillion-dollar industry has taken over social media, inspiring skits and parody raps with millions of views

Unverified rumours swirl around the death of a Siberian laboratory technician. Nature talks to a biosecurity specialist to unpack the fallout

The best film of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival premiered out of competition. La Bataille de Gaulle: L’Âge de Fer, which has the English title De Gaulle: Résistance, is an absolute triumph of cinema. I...

Find in Spanish cave provides rare window into the domestic lives of our closest relatives

There were still several gendarmerie vans parked near Lycée Hélène Boucher in the 20th arrondissement at noon on...

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 6 October · 54min

The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.

Inquest under way into why President Lula’s success in curbing Amazon deforestation has not led to success at polls

A Yorkshire company which develops UK care homes and owned by one of the region’s wealthiest entrepreneurs has sealed a £1.1bn deal to sell 45 properties to a Californian investment firm.

The skipper who led India to the historic 2025 World Cup win has stepped down from her role in all three formats.

It’s not really working.

Teenagers Eva Wishart and Emily Smith launch project to breed and release 250 of the tiny animals by September Children in Devon are being invited to become “citizen captive breeders”, rearing harvest mice at home for release into the wild to help revive endangered nature. Wild Pets, a new conservation project launched by two 14-year-old friends, is seeking 20 Devon-based children to rear hundreds of mice after the duo’s own successful restoration efforts. Continue reading...

British politics has long been complacent about the power of big money. The relatively low price of access to...

More than 1 million people in Great Britain now vape despite having never regularly smoked, ONS data shows More than 1 million people in Great Britain now vape despite never having been regular smokers, with rates nearly doubling in just four years, according to figures that health experts describe as concerning. About 5.4 million people aged 16 and above in England, Scotland and Wales (9.9%) used e-cigarettes daily or occasionally in 2025, Office for National Statistics data showed. Vaping was highest among those aged 25-34 (16.4%). Continue reading...

One autistic individual is reported to be living the dream, having opened a bookshop and then displayed a large sign in the window reading NO CUSTOMERS. Alix Gardner, 42, has embraced their inner…

Belgian physicist praised for work on the IceCube detector that observes the ghost-like particles in Antarctica The Nobel prize in physics 2026 has been awarded to Francis Halzen for his work on ghost-like particles called neutrinos and the IceCube detector that observes them at the south pole. Halzen, a Belgian particle physicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, receives the prize of 12m Swedish kronor (about £900,000) awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Continue reading...

As we approach the 75th anniversary of the key event in repulsing fascism in the East End of London, David Rosenberg looks back on the importance of the Battle of Cable Street, and looks forward to th...

Someday a movie featuring an argument about Predator vs Hobbit fanfiction will deserve a negative review, but today is not that day. The Incomer is completely deranged (complimentary), and its derange...