How long can Ofcom allow Nigel Farage to keep his own show? Alan and Lionel discuss the crisis at the top of the BBC, and whether current impartiality rules are fit for purpose ...

One thing I didn’t quite realise when we decided, a couple of years ago, to number each edition of The Culture newsletter is that it would make the 100th edition—this one—feel a little… different. You ...

Laura Bates: Billionaires are hijacking AI—and we should all be furious The activist and author on her latest book, how powerful algorithms are fuelling the backlash against feminism, and what we can ...

How should the UK government choose which projects to invest in? How can it avoid making catastrophic mistakes? Labour’s new 10-year Infrastructure Strategy, published in June, shows the immense ...

This year’s Thinkers are pushing boundaries and building connections; their ideas are novel, inspiring and challenging. But the list is not exhaustive: when you voted for your Top Thinker, we hope you ...

Why isn’t it raining? One statistic helps us understand climate change—and why we are lurching from droughts to floods to droughts again ...

Imagine that a populist, hard-right party takes office and begins dismantling democracy. Except this time, it’s in Britain ...

Raise a pint to the Green Man This folkloric figure adorns many a pub sign in Britain, while also presiding over May Day celebrations. Who is he? And where did he come from?

In the months after a decisive election, voting intention polls have no predictive value. That is why I have largely ignored them so far. But tracked over time, they do tell us something. That is why ...

The hyperbole on book jackets—both the plot summaries and the lists of adulatory adjectives that go with them—have long frustrated authors, but no one would dispute that a good blurb has crucial ...

‘Doggerland’—the winner of the VS Pritchett Short Story Prize 2022 In partnership with the Royal Society of Literature, we are delighted to present Kaliane Bradley’s winning short story ...

Bluesky: the ‘safe space’ social media Like many Bluesky users, Aaron Rodericks joined after leaving X. Now head of trust and safety, he explains why ‘free speech absolutism’ isn’t his philosophy ...