Why allegations of BBC bias on Israel are becoming hard to reconcile The BBC is criticised—from both sides—for its reporting on Israel. A kind of groupthink is setting in that means there is no room ...

Let us start with what is not new. Political violence is not new, either from those with power or from those without power. Indeed the earliest organised communities—“polities”—may have come into ...

Street-based sex workers tell me it is similar for them—there would be direct confrontations if someone was perceived to be negatively affecting another’s income, and colleagues often informally set ...

Twenty years of the best superhero movie ever made Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy gives us a complex, credible Batman alongside the blockbuster spectacle ...

The anthropologist Julia Lawton’s work in an NHS hospice highlights the isolating nature of death. Lawton gives a painful and vivid account of the death of a woman called Annie. Annie had initially ...

This week on Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by Hamish McKenzie, co-founder of Substack. The platform, which now has over five million paid subscriptions, allows writers to self-publish ...

‘We escaped death. But now, we are losing everything’ In besieged Gaza, hunger is everywhere and the black markets are thriving ...

One of Donald Trump’s most lucrative business ventures since being reelected president of the United States has been his own memecoin, a novelty type of cryptocurrency with no inherent value and which ...

Since 13th June, Israel has launched strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, assassinated scientists and commanders, and bombed infrastructure. Iran has responded with ballistic missiles and drones.

Brian Cox isn’t short of a few quid. Decades of performing for stage, TV and film, including Hollywood hits Braveheart, The Bourne Supremacy, X-Men 2 and, not least, as the tyrannical Logan Roy in HBO ...

On a warm Tuesday evening in mid-May, the music industry was out in force in central London. First, to see Dove Ellis play a support set at the 100 Club, followed by Tyler Ballgame, a short walk away ...

In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel’s attacks on Iran could result in regime change in Tehran. This statement underlines that its attack ...