My news feed has been full of headlines about the end of the world. “Is war coming to Korea?” “Putin: Nukes in Ukraine?” Even: “Netanyahu may use THESE THREE WEAPONS to attack Iran’s nuclear ...

Esther Rantzen has to talk about death too much. In 2023, the former BBC That’s Life! presenter and founder of Childline was diagnosed with lung cancer. Her diagnosis made her value every new day, she ...

Earlyish in my journalistic career I was interviewed for a job by the late Robert Maxwell, now perhaps best known as the father of Ghislaine. For those too young to remember, he was an overbearing, ...

Each year, there is a prolonged and increasingly irritating debate as to whether certain films count as “Christmas movies” or not. There are the uncontroversial choices—Elf, Miracle On 34th Street, It ...

On 18 th June 1994, two members of the Ulster Volunteer Force dressed in boiler suits and balaclavas walked into a bar in Loughinisland, County Down and opened fire. Six people were killed. Nobody has ...

From Shakespeare’s sonnets and Donne’s songs (“Tell me where all past times are”) to Wordsworth and Eliot (“All time is unredeemable”), poets have gone in search of lost time. It was this theme—one of ...

The big story, following publication of the Makin Report and the resignation of Justin Welby, is clear: a corrupt Church of England knowingly sheltered a terrible abuser, in the shape of John Smyth, ...

The collection offers up a cross-section of the kinds of trends, technologies and cultural shifts which will loom large on the policymaking horizon in coming decades ...