The LA wildfire may have claimed its most famous victim. “There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us,” read the Facebook post of the family of David Lynch after his death last ...

After Trump’s second inauguration, Ellen and Alona are joined by Labour peer and diplomat Catherine Ashton. Catherine was formerly leader of the House of Lords, as well as the EU's first High ...

When she dies, Ingrid Newkirk wants her skin to be turned into a leather belt and an umbrella stand to be fashioned from one of her feet. In her will, which she has published online, she asks that her ...

It was once assumed that when the impacts of climate change hit the western world, people in wealthier countries would act. The wildfires in Los Angeles prove this will not be the case. Recrimination ...

What does a good death mean? There’s an intentional irony in the phrase. Surely death is to be shunned and avoided? A good death is simply the opposite of a bad death—a death without pain, without ...

In the 1880s and 1890s, a series of technological innovations—the invention of the linotype machine, the move from hand-cranked to steam-powered presses, the adoption of cheap pulp paper—made ...

I have been worrying about my neck size. It’s 16-and-a-half since you ask, and I have a full collection of M&S shirts to prove it. But I’m not sure my neck is… OK, I’m going to say it, masculine ...

In the depths of an awful bout of the flu, I recently found myself bingeing the second season of Netflix’s Squid Game. This being a Korean drama about a carnivalesque series of deadly games, my ...

Keir Starmer ended last year with a “Trump love-in”, in his Mansion House speech. But Labour’s placatory approach to Trump is both bad policy and bad politics. Ministers have ducked or walked back ...

On 15 th January, Sam Harris, the philosopher, neuroscientist, author and podcast host, revealed what lay behind his falling out with Elon Musk. Once, said Harris, they had been friends—so much so ...

A new report released today appears to directly challenge the British Jewish community’s dominant approach to fighting antisemitism. But for Feldman et al, this strategy of building vertical alliances ...