Comics characters often outlive their creators. Some have carried on for decades, others more than a century, picked up by new artists and writers who weren’t around when they started. Ernie ...

Is it fair to criticise a nonfiction book for what it doesn’t include? Most would argue that it isn’t unless the omissions materially alter the subject being tackled. And this is where Lissa Evans’s ...

If you read a judgment of a US federal court, especially an opinion of a Supreme Court justice, you will see respectful, almost lyrical references to the common law of England as at the point of ...

“The man on his holidays becomes the man he might have been, the man he could have been, had things worked out a little differently,” declares Mr Stevens, a London office clerk on his annual summer ...

In August 2023, a special adviser left the Ministry of Defence to become director of strategic engagement at German defence firm Helsing that November. The following February, less than a year after ...

“Politics,” the German sociologist Max Weber said, is “a strong and slow boring of hard boards.” That’s boring as a verb, of course, meaning drilling. (In German: “Ein starkes langsames Bohren von ...

Here's a paradox. Ten years after the Brexit referendum, short-lived, failing British governments have become the norm and Europe is the curse of our politics. Yet British support for Ukraine, a ...

Andy Burnham has announced an ambitious plan to create a Number 10 North, which is fine as far as it goes. But why stop there? If Britain is serious about devolving power, levelling up, rebalancing ...

It is one of the great might-have-beens in modern British history. In June 2003, Gordon Brown ruled out joining the euro, for the time being. The road to Brexit 13 years later was a long and winding ...

When the writer David Foster Wallace died in 2008, he left behind a manuscript for an unfinished novel, The Pale King, as well as an oeuvre that has come to define him as the voice of a generation: ...

The new seat of Waveney Valley cuts through the border country of Norfolk and Suffolk and is attracting national attention. This is due in no small part to Adrian Ramsay, the Green Party co-leader, ...

For the major US AI companies today, there are two big risks. The first is getting on Donald Trump’s bad side. The second, strangely, is having people believe your own hype. Take Anthropic, creator of ...