Australian composer Liza Lim, now resident in the UK, is string-obsessed, viewing string and rope as materials that have bound societies together throughout history: we weave tangled webs, we tie ...

Let us start with what is good about the unofficial Council of Europe meeting and statement to “rebalance” the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). What is good is that it is that the expressed ...

Jerusalem Demsas is trying to make liberalism cool again. On the left, the ideology is often associated with tepidity and compromise, and a naive faith in civility and meritocracy. On the right, it is ...

“BERNARD MANNING!” Nigel Farage shouted at a hapless ITV reporter yesterday. “BERNARD MANNING, BERNARD MANNING!” He raged at the BBC’s Emma Barnett, calling her a “lower grade presenter” and accusing ...

Do jurors have the right to apply their conscience when giving a verdict? This centuries-old principle of our jury system is at stake after a landmark hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice (RCJ). The ...

It’s easy to make fun of Elon Musk’s latest vanity project: attempting to replace Wikipedia as the online encyclopedia of choice with his Grokipedia—created in the past few months by his AI chatbot ...

Politics, as we political scientists love to note, is about trade-offs. What happens if you pretend trade-offs don’t exist? In November, the government put forward two major policy strategies. Rachel ...

What is the purpose of the criminal justice system? Is it about securing as many convictions as possible, with the process little more than a conveyor belt between a defendant being charged and being ...