When people have asked me for TV recommendations recently, my primary answer has been the second season of Nathan Fielder’s HBO show The Rehearsal. The next question, fairly enough, tends to be: ...

Why did Trump almost win? His presidency has seen many disasters. But when campaigning, Trump saw an opportunity that Biden didn't—and it proved crucial ...

Raymond Martin can’t stop talking about toilets. As we discuss ways a toilet could make a profit, the director of the British Toilet Association (BTA) is prone to flights of fancy. “What about a taxi ...

In this week’s Q&A, the hosts weigh in on the BBC bringing in paid services for across the pond. They also discuss Anna Wintour stepping down from Vogue...or is she? Plus, after a court found that the ...

London has a new place to be. I’m not a fan of theatre director Jamie Lloyd—as you’ll know if you read this column last December—but there’s no denying he knows how to put theatre at the centre of our ...

Outside the festival, the condemnation of Bob Vylan was swift. The band claimed that, actually, they were not calling for the death of Jews, only the “dismantling of a violent military regime”. But ...

In the age of TikTok, how can newsrooms earn attention? Alan and Lionel are joined by Sophia Smith Galer, digital journalist, author and founder of Viralect. Sophia shares why TikTok shouldn’t be ...

“I almost worship him as if he were a god. I have never felt such an extravagant admiration for anybody.” So the 22-year-old Bertrand Russell wrote to his fiancée Alys Pearsall Smith in November 1894.

F Scott Fitzgerald was fulsome in his praise and Sinclair Lewis declared it the “first book to catch Manhattan”. Published a few months after Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, John Dos Passos’s novel ...

Bob Vylan, Kneecap and the politics of Glastonbury The police have got involved after this year’s festival. Here’s what it was like to be there ...

The problem is that I already feel permanently guilty about owning too many books for my very small cottage. My passion (or should I say addiction?) goes back to my first life, in the Soviet Union, ...