Animal Farm, which was published 80 years ago this week, is the most insidious of George Orwell’s books. At first sight it’s a rollicking story, funny and unusually (for Orwell) full of affectionate ...

How ‘distinguished’ UK lawyers made an unconvincing case against the recognition of Palestine But the UK government is not making a convincing case for recognition ...

Securing a ticket for this, Hopkins’s third foray into stand-up, has been tricky. About half the stops on her Batshit Bonkers Britain tour are sold out. I am squeezed into Bethnal Green’s Backyard ...

We asked staff members, contributors and critics to recommend books for taking on holiday this summer. Here are our critics’ choices ...

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 ...

Privatisation was meant to revitalise a public good. Instead, it left us with leaky pipes, sewage spills and rivers not fit to swim in ...

Alan and Lionel are joined by Sophia Smith Galer, digital journalist, author and founder of Viralect. Sophia shares why TikTok shouldn’t be underestimated as a form of journalism, the resistance she’s ...

If you have turned on the radio, listened to a political podcast or flicked through a newspaper of late, you will have noticed excited chatter about something called Blue Labour. Its primary ...

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 ...

A new paper argues that AI should be treated as a ‘normal’ technology like electricity or the internet. But it’s far more unknowable ...

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

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 19 of the Public ...