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The speed and scale at which disinformation spreads is one of the central challenges of our age. But if facts alone were sufficient to dispel rumours,...
The aim of Thursday’s Downing Street meeting between Sir Keir Starmer and Volodymyr Zelenskyy could not have been clearer. It was to send a strong...
When Sir Keir Starmer told reporters last week that his government’s upcoming budget would “build on what we’ve done” by focusing on “living...
Anas al-Sharif knew that far from offering protection amid the slaughter in Gaza, his press credentials further endangered him. The Committee to...
Science is not black and white. It’s more complicated and more exciting. It’s a constant process of exploration. An adventure into the unknown....
In recent weeks, as Russia continued its assault on Ukraine in frank disregard of White House deadlines and demands, there was hope in Kyiv and...
Earlier this month, as Nordic countries were hit with an unprecedented heatwave and wildfires in the US began spurting “fire clouds”, Barclays...
Most British citizens have little contact with human rights law, which is as it should be in a mature democracy. Widespread anxiety about basic...
Walter Benjamin, the great German theorist of early 20th-century modernity, was famously unimpressed by art nouveau. Dismissive of the style’s...
Israel’s planned takeover of Gaza would be an act of destructive futility. It would solve absolutely nothing. It will merely pile fresh military,...
In July, Scotland’s first minister, John Swinney, set out a three-stage plan to achieve separation from the United Kingdom. Part one would “build...
No one should be surprised that the highly profitable UK gambling industry is intensifying its lobbying efforts, with a view to avoiding both higher...
“We are, it is admitted, the financial centre of the world,” said the chairman of the Union Bank of London in 1903. Back then, the City of London...
For a quarter of a century, Russian media have cultivated a myth of Vladimir Putin’s inspired leadership. State propaganda allows no hint of...
Plastic pollution has reached the most remote and inaccessible parts of our beleaguered planet. It has been found in Greenland’s ice cap, near the...
In politics, numbers rarely speak for themselves. They must be framed and interpreted. They are often weaponised. In Britain’s increasingly toxic...
Reflecting on his burst of musical creativity in 1970s West Berlin, David Bowie reportedly said that recording albums in a studio close to the Wall...