I can’t say I ever really enjoyed watching Euphoria, Sam Levinson’s hit high school drama, adapted from an Israeli original, that first aired in 2019. I remember watching the first season at the ripe ...

Three days after the president of the United States threatened, via social media, the destruction of an entire civilisation, Artemis II splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, its crew having travelled ...

I am officially unemployed. Jobless. Redundant. At time of writing, I have been out of the job that pays my bills for less than 24 hours. Dear reader, I am not a full-time writer, much as I would love ...

When Alvi Choudhury opened his door to two police officers in January, he assumed they wanted footage from his video doorbell. “Hello officers, I’m not in trouble, am I?” he joked. “Alvi, right?” one ...

Jürgen Habermas once asked Bernard Williams whether he was an Aristotelian or a Wittgensteinian. The German philosopher was keen on categorising philosophers; the British philosopher wasn’t. Too ...

Instagram and YouTube now have a serious problem in respect of lawsuits for harm caused by social media addiction. But that problem is less about the result of the Kaley GM jury trial in California ...

The US-Israeli attack on Iran has destabilised the Middle East and the global economy. We asked experts to explain what will happen next In his seminal book On War Carl von Clausewitz famously ...

Alan and Lionel discuss the Observer after investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr, the paper’s former features writer, suggests that some of its new funders may not be who they seem. And as Scott ...

Dave is moving to the West Midlands to be nearer his grown children. Dave is the man who’s been responsible for bundling up copies of our parish magazine. He makes sure that each of the volunteers ...

We are passing through a storm that is shattering the markers of the world we thought we knew. That storm, an illiberal authoritarian counter-revolution against the liberal state and its postwar ...

There is only one road into the Nuba Mountains: a thin ribbon of sand and rock leading towards shrubby foothills. The sky here is bleached white by heat; the air so thick with dust it smells of ...

“The movies!—The movies!—We want the Movies!” So goes the cry in William Burroughs’s famously disorientating anti-novel The Soft Machine (1961). The movies, too, have always wanted William Burroughs.