The dog that didn’t bark was one of Sherlock Holmes’s most famous three-pipe mysteries. There is, by contrast, no great puzzle about the newspaper that didn’t endorse. Jeff Bezos decreed it. And when ...

The older I’ve become the more I’ve understood the French feminist Monique Wittig’s argument that lesbians are not women but another gender (a “third” sex or gender as it is sometimes called) because ...

It has been called a national emergency, an epidemic, and a public health crisis. Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is all of those things. In its election manifesto, the Labour party pledged to ...

David Barnett is a journalist and author. His folk horror novel Withered Hill was published in September 2024.

Pulitzer-winning journalist Steve Coll analyses the election, and Robert Kagan discusses his resignation from the Washington Post following a controversial decision Just days ahead of the US election, ...

The budget was a disorientating novelty. After four months of seemingly drifting governance, and four years of cripplingly cautious opposition, this was the moment when Keir Starmer’s Labour party ...

On a bright evening in June, Anna and her husband Des donned animal masks and proceeded to a location on the outskirts of Leeds. There they found likeminded people, some in simple disguises like ...

Thomas did not want his friend to become a martyr. Peter Lynch, he told me, was never one to look for trouble at protests. “He was an ordinary working-class man. He was calm,” Thomas said, clutching a ...

Donald Trump has little regard for the “mainstream media”—and in this election, he may need it less than ever. In this tight race, both Trump and Harris have been making use of new media, doing less ...

As Halloween approaches, Ellen and Alona are joined by journalist Gabriel Gatehouse to discuss his plunge into the world of conspiracy theories, QAnon and the extreme fringes of US politics. What have ...

Never has a budget been so comprehensively pre-announced as this one, and not since Norman Lamont’s post-European Exchange Rate Mechanism departure budget of 1993 has one been so dressed in doom, ...

As we come to the end of Pumpkin Spice Latte season (formerly known as autumn) and enter Mariah Carey season (formerly known as winter), I’m doing my best not to panic about the months of impending ...