It is hard, in any real-world city, to maintain the illusion of being the only person for any length of time. But the internet is different. There is always an element of unreality to an online ...

Belatedly, and tentatively, the landscape is starting to shift, partly because governments are becoming desperate for tax revenues. A group set up to advise the EU on tax policy recently warned that ...

When should you ban a far-right party? A motion to consider a ban of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), signed by 113 members of parliament, has been submitted to Bundestag. It’s a sign of how ...

But the crucial paragraphs are the first two. They are an open and unqualified admission of illegal conduct by NGN. Contrast these paragraphs with paragraph five, where the publisher is careful to say ...

With the JC we can discount profit: it’s safe to say it loses a large six-figure sum each year. So the person, or people, who pumped money into the ailing company in 2022 were either doing so from the ...

For one so astonishingly rich—he is worth around £800m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List—Marshall lives relatively modestly. Public filings appear to show him living in a Grade II listed house ...

It’s a miserable time for Britain’s universities. Their funding has declined and will fall further; cuts and closures are everywhere; their management and staff are divided as perhaps never before; ...

Artificial intelligence has turned a corner, and no one is sure how worried we should be. After years of hype, stilted chatbots and indifferent language translation, suddenly AI can engage us in ...

So when, half a century after his death in 1965, we got both The Complete Prose of TS Eliot (2014–2019) and The Poems of TS Eliot (2015)—fully annotated by academics who had paid their photocopier ...

According to Thursday’s New York Times, the answer is a collective decision to climb under the duvet and hope no one notices.None of the top 10 firms by revenue has come out in solidarity with Perkins ...

In seventy years, only seven independent MPs had ever set foot in parliament. Then, last week, six were elected in one night. All but one were backed by The Muslim Vote (TMV), a campaign supporting ...

On geopolitics, our contributors suggested many worthy thinkers on China and US-China relations. Among these, we’ve highlighted a historian whose account of the influences on Chinese nationalism is ...