In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in 2016, a spate of reading lists was published, aiming to arm readers with the literary weapons they would need to “resist” the administration. Guides to ...

Contrary to accepted wisdom, the customer is not always right. For proof, you only need to look at the obnoxious behaviour of diners in restaurants, pubs, bars and cafés across the UK. French maître d ...

How should the UK government choose which projects to invest in? How can it avoid making catastrophic mistakes? Labour’s new 10-year Infrastructure Strategy, published in June, shows the immense ...

F Scott Fitzgerald was fulsome in his praise and Sinclair Lewis declared it the “first book to catch Manhattan”. Published a few months after Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, John Dos Passos’s novel ...

This year’s Thinkers are pushing boundaries and building connections; their ideas are novel, inspiring and challenging. But the list is not exhaustive: when you voted for your Top Thinker, we hope you ...

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s legal texts are section 19 of the Public ...

Harry’s new book Year of the Rat explores this journey. He shares why he went undercover to report on the story, why he thinks the threat from the British far right has been underestimated, and ...

Imagine that a populist, hard-right party takes office and begins dismantling democracy. Except this time, it’s in Britain ...

The obsessives tally 18 Beatles songs mentioning “sun” or “sunshine”. That fits with their luminous place in the national story: a burst of colour and sound that presaged the passing of postwar ...

In late January, Nigel Farage stood in front of a packed Reform party fundraiser in Oswald’s, an exclusive private members’ club in Mayfair, central London. Farage encouraged the 100-strong crowd to ...

One way of exploring the limits of law and policy is by posing hypothetical questions. This week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a legal text or other formal document is used as the basis of a wider ...

The new Netflix adaptation is not. Why go for a reduced version when you can read Lampedusa’s original instead?