The footage was first broadcast in the early hours of 5th July 2024. On the stage, draped in his gold chain of office, the lord mayor of Leicester makes a shock announcement: an independent candidate ...

On the London Underground at the moment there are huge eye-catching posters for a virtual private network (VPN) bearing the words: “Some might say they have nothing to hide.” VPNs, as you may know, ...

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 ...

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 ...

I am trying to imagine Kemi Badenoch in June 1940. “We shall not yet fight on the beaches,” she might have said. “We need a reality check before we commit to fighting on the landing grounds. We will ...

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 ...

In Cambridge, Massachusetts, the sky is overcast while at the Harvard Business School, Professor Rebecca Henderson is feeling positive. An economist by training, Henderson began her academic career ...

It is hard to find two national leaders who are more alike. As I wrote for Prospect last year, Keir Starmer and Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese are the same age and both lead their nation’s ...

Around 33 AD, Saul of Tarsus was a zealous young tent-maker, “breathing out threatenings and slaughter” against followers of Jesus. He watched on approvingly as Stephen, the first Christian martyr, ...

Alan and Lionel are joined by Lea Korsgaard, co-founder and editor-in-chief at Zetland, the Danish media organisation revolutionising the way people engage with the news. She discusses what makes the ...

One bright September afternoon in a forest in Switzerland, a 64-year-old woman is about to die. She is standing in a clearing, in front of a purple capsule that’s just large enough to fit a human ...