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We will hear a lot in the coming weeks and months of the proper duties of the Lords, but I have been reflecting on what happened on Friday and why. I have a lot of sympathy with my wife Jo shouting at ...

In this week’s Q&A, Alan and Lionel are asked where they go for analysis of the situation in the Middle East, including the Israel-Iran war. They also discuss diversity in journalism and how cuts have ...

In parallel, selected journalists would be invited on all-expenses-paid trips to Israel to be “briefed”. Not so long ago I myself was asked by a popular columnist if I’d like to go on such a trip—and ...

In the decade or so since I was diagnosed, Parkinson’s has become the world’s fastest-growing neurological disease. Many neurologists argue that, although it is not communicable, like Covid or flu, ...

Amazon, which the Department for Education has named one of the UK’s 100 Top Apprenticeship Employers, started its own apprenticeship programme in 2013, with just six hires. Over time, the programme ...

The recent spate of political violence in the United States, as well as elsewhere, is thereby not a novelty. Indeed, the only mild surprise is perhaps that there has not been more of it. In Europe, ...

A problematic side-effect of the shift away from in-house sex work and towards independent escorting—a change driven by the ease of advertising yourself on the internet—is that many sex workers lack ...

Cillian Murphy, who screen-tested for the role of Wayne/Batman, instead plays another split figure in Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow, the psychiatrist who uses a fear-inducing hallucinogen to manipulate his ...

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 ...

Since launching in 2017, it has gained huge popularity with journalists and the public. Alan, Lionel and Hamish discuss what makes it fundamentally different to other social media sites, including the ...

As the world focuses its attention on Israel’s war with Iran, our situation in Gaza worsens. Here, safe food aid has vanished, markets have collapsed and only two means remain for getting food: either ...