The failure to modernise the House of Lords is yet another sign of how broken Britain is You read these never-ending debates over supposedly reforming the Upper House and wonder if anything will ever ...

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London has a new place to be. I’m not a fan of theatre director Jamie Lloyd—as you’ll know if you read this column last December—but there’s no denying he knows how to put theatre at the centre of our ...

National Theatre Wales is dead. Long live the Welsh National Theatre. And long live Michael Sheen. In December, the former company “ceased to exist” after a protracted saga prompted by the Arts ...

When people have asked me for TV recommendations recently, my primary answer has been the second season of Nathan Fielder’s HBO show The Rehearsal. The next question, fairly enough, tends to be: ...

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Outside the festival, the condemnation of Bob Vylan was swift. The band claimed that, actually, they were not calling for the death of Jews, only the “dismantling of a violent military regime”. But ...

Alan and Lionel are joined by Sophia Smith Galer, digital journalist, author and founder of Viralect. Sophia shares why TikTok shouldn’t be underestimated as a form of journalism, the resistance she’s ...

A new paper argues that AI should be treated as a ‘normal’ technology like electricity or the internet. But it’s far more unknowable ...