Walking over the bridges of the Turia river into the southern suburbs of Valencia is to cross a threshold from the present into a disquieting future. The centre of Valencia’s old city looks much as it ...

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It is time to end the “slippery slope” of the current law on assisted dying ...

One standard response to any proposal whatsoever to legalise assisted dying is to warn of “a slippery slope”. It often does not matter what the proposal itself is, the stock reaction will be the same: ...

Among Elon Musk’s current obsessions is his view that the only place—the only place—where truth can be found is on X, formerly known as Twitter. That need not worry us unduly except that he is said to ...

John Smyth, who died in 2018 aged 77, was born in Canada to parents who were members of the cultish Plymouth Brethren. The ...

Join us for a lively Q&A session with authors Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman, discussing their book "Born to Rule" Join us for an evening with sociologists and authors Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman as ...

Hear Lionel Barber discuss his new book “Gambling Man”, the story of Masayoshi Son, the mysterious Korean-Japanese tech investor who has made, and lost, more money than anyone Join us to hear Lionel ...

Award-winning journalist Marianna Spring takes Alan and Lionel on a tour through “Conspiracyland”, trying to make sense of modern-day myths popularised by social media From JFK’s assassination to the ...

Unless you’re glued to TikTok makeup videos, you may not know there is a trademark tussle going on over the word demure. In August, a young woman in Chicago drove to her job at a grocery store. While ...