Two big comebacks this week—Phillip Schofield and Michael Gove—and who is to say which is the most ground-shaking? One involves confronting “total isolation…and provides the time to battle within his ...

The steps of Lebanon’s largest mosque heaved with people on Saturday, as families huddled in the shade of its limestone archways. The most fortunate among them lay on blankets they had managed to take ...

From the downfall of London's iconic daily to the perils of shorthand exams, Alan and Lionel answer listeners’ questions about the media In this episode of Media Confidential Q&A, Alan Rusbridger and ...

Gazan pupils didn’t attend school for the whole of last year. Had such a gap year occurred in peaceful circumstances, I would have envied them. I grew up in a refugee camp in the south of Lebanon in ...

Some men hate women. And some go online to talk about it. On Reddit, there are whole groups—subreddits—which appear to be dedicated to blaming women for everything. One group called “r/MensRights” has ...

Over a deliriously unruly 520 pages of social history, The Freaks Came Out to Write maps the story of the Voice from its founding in 1955 to its current status as a title which, despite various ...

In this episode of Media Confidential Q&A, Alan and Lionel return with the answers to all your burning questions and shed some light on the inner workings of the media industry. This week: why is the ...

The justice system of England and Wales imposes criminal liability with far more ease than it ever removes it. This is not unusual, and the same observation can be made of many criminal justice ...

Much of the UK hasn’t noticed, but an enormous shift could be about to happen in Welsh politics. Soon, Labour may no longer be its largest party. Welsh Labour has been the most successful democratic ...

Rachel Reeves’s warmly received Labour conference speech contained the headline of an argument—but not an argument. The “warmly received” bit is worth registering, because amid this bizarrely terrible ...

Tim Snyder: Why a Trump victory is a threat to freedom Jon Sopel on meeting Donald Trump—and the BBC’s “mess” ...

You may not be too aware of it, but the outside world is waiting—and worrying, about the choice you will make on 5th November. Should you care? I suggest you should. In a world of hypersonic missiles, ...