The United States has been ravaged by synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, and a few months ago, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that a similar disaster might be coming for Europe. Is he ...

In a peculiar speech this week, Rishi Sunak lumped together a host of dangers supposedly facing Britain—from Russia and China to AI, wokeism, energy security, economic dislocation and Scottish ...

Two of Fleet Street’s biggest news organisations carried on using unlawful methods—including the hacking of voicemail—for at least five years after they claimed to have stopped, according to evidence ...

Several hundred members of the all-male Garrick Club recently crowded into a conference room in central London to vote in favour of admitting women. Nearly 200 years after the Garrick was founded for ...

You don’t need numbers, but merely open eyes in any British city, to discern that many people who used, presumably, to sleep with a roof over their heads are these days living in tents: not long ago I ...

One February afternoon in 2010, the Guardian published on its website a call from the Liberal Democrats’ home affairs spokesman, Chris Huhne, for a judicial inquiry into the phone-hacking scandal.

Three of the senior journalists from the News of the World who were convicted of phone hacking and sacked by the paper were given “huge sums of money” by the Murdoch company after threatening to ...

There is something regal about this image of artist and photographer Richard Billingham’s mother Liz reclining on the sofa in her Black Country flat. She is a powerful presence across Ray’s a Laugh, a ...

Will Lewis, the former editor of the Daily Telegraph and currently the publisher of the Washington Post, has been accused in the High Court of “perverting the course of justice” as the phone-hacking ...

People are tired of Westminster. The two-party dominance, fostered by the restrictive first-past-the-post system, stifles genuine choice and innovation. Labour and the Tories grapple for Number 10, ...

Amid the glorious blizzard of graphics with which Sky News and the BBC explained last week’s elections, one stands out. It undermines Rishi Sunak’s claim that the Conservatives are on course to ...

It was big news when Reg Prentice switched from Labour to Conservative in 1977. He has been a cabinet minister under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan. His decision to cross the floor secured one of ...