An apocryphal quote from Uncle Joe Stalin was that artists in the Soviet Union should be the ‘engineers of human souls’.

Brains are indeed fascinating. They are also still mysterious. And they can also be confusing. I was reminded of this during ...

The UK is in a dark place, but surely it couldn’t reach the point of civil war? Don’t be so sure. To discuss the possibility ...

Two books I read in my teens made me want to be a writer. One, Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch, appeared when I was in the third ...

If ever there were a week for me to commit a crime, this was it. The Sentencing Council – which advises judges on how long ...

When President Trump held up an easel in the White House Rose Garden illustrating each country’s ‘tariffs charged to the USA’ ...

James Heale is correct to call it that — is, more importantly, a victory for the new style of Toryism the shadow justice ...

Calle Londres 38 is the address in Santiago of one of the notorious detention centres where the government of the Chilean ...

It’s all kicking off in Bristol. On Friday, Reform UK announced that the multimillionaire Arron Banks was going to be their ...

Keir Starmer had a special point to make at the very outset of Prime Minister’s Questions about the threat of tariffs from ...

Patrick Harvie has today announced – and not a moment too soon – that he will step down as co-leader of the Scottish Greens ...

This is an excerpt from the latest episode of the Holy Smoke podcast with Damian Thompson, which you can find at the bottom ...