Gentiles have been imagining Jews seated together at a ritual table sipping gentile blood for millennia. The Greco-Egyptian scholar Apion, living in Egypt in the first century CE, recorded an instance ...

Why does every platform seem to get worse over time? This week, Ellen and Alona are joined by journalist, tech activist and sci-fi writer Cory Doctorow, who coined the term “enshittification” to ...

It may not have been a coup, but whoever leaked the so-called Prescott dossier on allegations of BBC bias to the Telegraph three weeks ago—“Not Me Guv!”—certainly pulled off a PR coup. You will ...

Ilan Volkov didn’t expect his viral moment. In September, following a concert at the Proms in London, the Israeli conductor gave a brief address. “In my heart there is great pain now, every day for ...

If, like me, you missed the October 2024 episode of BBC’s Panorama, you may well have wondered about the fallout it engendered: the resignations of two of the broadcaster’s top executives, a ...

Palantir has acquired key UK government contracts, promising to make government more effective. But Peter Thiel’s controversial company has also worked with the US government and ICE on deportations ...

Right-wing social media accounts went to town this week on Cat Eccles, a Labour MP who, they said, had accused the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, of “trying to appease the electorate” with this week ...

Centrism used to be such a nice word. Cast your mind back to the 1990s, when Bill Clinton championed the “vital center” and Tony Blair’s Third Way was electorally unstoppable. In the afterglow of the ...

Less than 18 months after Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves swept to power, some whisper that next week’s budget could finish them off. With borrowing high and growth low, the pair might plead that it ...