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 ...

Olly Robbins and Chris Wormald were two of the most able and “can do” middle-ranking officials with whom I worked in the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. It was no surprise to me that they ...

In 1996 and 1997, the reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov played a series of games against Deep Blue, an IBM supercomputer optimised to compete against humans in tournament conditions.

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 Afghan war crimes inquiry is extraordinary, not least in the evidence which it is placing into the public domain. Its full name is the Independent Inquiry Relating to Afghanistan—and there can be ...

The sun hasn’t yet risen in Los Angeles when Michael Connelly first joins our call; a murky half-light is all that’s visible through the window in the background. If I’m worried I’ve forced him to ...

In the first year of the Labour government, we began to hear about Denmark’s approach to migration. In February 2025, political scientist Mark Leonard wrote in the New Statesman about the example the ...

When the writer David Foster Wallace died in 2008, he left behind a manuscript for an unfinished novel, The Pale King, as well as an oeuvre that has come to define him as the voice of a generation: ...

“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.

The police burst in, broke up the gathering and arrested everyone involved. They carted them off to the cells, confiscated their phones and, in at least one case, raided their home and took away all ...

I was listening to queer icon TS Madison’s podcast last week. She spoke about how, as a sex worker, she saw men stripped of the pretensions and performance they put on for other women. “I don’t meet ...

Lives lost from the attacks on Iran from Israel and the United States are mounting. The human toll is not the only cost of the war, however. There will likely be three other lasting consequences, none ...