How do we reconcile truth and morality with the past? This was the grand challenge that the philosopher rose to meet ...

The US-Israeli attack on Iran has destabilised the Middle East and the global economy. We asked experts to explain what will happen next In his seminal book On War Carl von Clausewitz famously ...

There is only one road into the Nuba Mountains: a thin ribbon of sand and rock leading towards shrubby foothills. The sky here is bleached white by heat; the air so thick with dust it smells of ...

Lives lost from the attacks on Iran from Israel and the United States are mounting. The human toll is not the only cost of the war, however. There will likely be three other lasting consequences, none ...

The UK has chosen not to follow Trump into the war on Iran. Has Keir Starmer damaged the “special relationship”—or was it the right call? This week Philip and Ellen are joined by Kim Darroch, former ...

Joseph Wright of Derby’s painting An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768) is not really an experiment on a bird—it’s an experiment on the people watching. How, it asks, will spectators react to ...

On the morning of 28th February, Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, a nine-year-old pupil at the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, a city in southern Iran, left for school. Standing at the top of the stairs ...

In the first year of the Labour government, we began to hear about Denmark’s approach to migration. In February 2025, political scientist Mark Leonard wrote in the New Statesman about the example the ...

It was around 1980 that Paul Marshall, a keen Christian undergraduate at Oxford, went to a presentation by the evangelical aid agency Tearfund. He was so impressed by the call for Christians to help ...

If there is one meeting of minds I’d love to drag out of history and into the AI era, it would be that shared by Alan Turing and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The real-life hookups between the young father of ...

Late last Wednesday, Israeli TV channel i24 News ran a story claiming thousands of Kurdish troops in Iraq had launched a ground invasion of western Iran. The US and Israeli airstrikes that have been ...

Those described as “Westminster watchers” are mostly just that—they glance at the braying tribes at PMQs, and keep half an ear out for the odd line of invective that produces a particular jeer. It is ...