After seizing control of ten councils this month, the Reform party has dramatically reshaped England’s local politics. The insurgent party, which won 677 council seats out of roughly 1,600, as well as ...

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s legal texts are section 51(6) of the Senior ...

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s legal text is section 13 of the Criminal ...

After fleeing her violent husband from another part of the UK to England and seeing the same car following her to work and back home, Emmaline* assumed she was imagining things. “I convinced myself I ...

This week, Ellen and Alona are joined by Canadian historian Quinn Slobodian. The rise of the populist right is often framed as a backlash against neoliberalism—a revolt by those “left behind” by ...

Edmund Fairfax-Lucy was laying a carpet in his home at Charlecote Park when his heart gave out. The previous week, he’d felt a sharp pain in his chest but dismissed it. Presumably, the incident ...

At the Truth Tellers summit in London, Alan and Lionel sit down with Mark Thompson, the CEO of American media giant CNN. Mark is asked if he has sat down with Trump since he started in office. Does he ...

A man sits with his arms folded across his legs, his head bowed against his knees. Another lies flat like a starfish face down on the floor. A third sits with his hand to his ear, listening for ...

Nigel Farage is tired of being everyone else’s gadfly and now he has found true ambition. A member of parliament at the eighth time of trying, he wants to be Reform UK’s prime minister, and he ...

This week on Media Confidential, journalist Harry Shukman joins Alan and Lionel to discuss his year spent infiltrating the far right. Harry’s new book Year of the Rat explores this journey. He shares ...

I write this with my T-shirt still sodden with rain. After the driest spring in 69 years, the water butts in my garden ran dry in May. Normally, that happens in July or August or not at all. Desperate ...