A groundbreaking documentary, of which I am a part, has shed new light on the dictator’s life—and, by extension, on the 20th ...

There’s one way the BBC could retrieve some dignity from the smoking rubble of the past week. It should send Donald Trump a four-word reply to his blustering threat to sue the corporation in Florida ...

A pilgrim once came to the rectory door. She had a backpack and a staff and was looking for a place to spend the night. I can’t say what brought her here, or where she was headed. I wish I’d been able ...

Two episodes into the new Alan Partridge series, How Are You? It’s Alan—the last episode of which airs on BBC One tomorrow, though all episodes are already on iPlayer—came the opportunity to ...

Writing a proper biography of Shakespeare is virtually impossible given the shortage of hard data about him. Actually, it’s not that limited for someone who lived 400 years ago, and who never got ...

On a weekend trip to Brighton, three friends and I are watching some standup comedy in a small, hot room. We’re almost the only people there, and the comedian picks us out and asks how we know each ...

It doesn’t take much these days to be marked out as a “rising star” in the current Conservative Party, or what remains of it. But in recent weeks, the hitherto unknown MP for the Weald of Kent, Katie ...

If any idea could unite a fragmented Britain, it might be that we are suffering a free speech crisis. The political left points to the proscription of Palestine Action and the mass arrest of ...

In the United States an elected member of the House of Representatives still cannot take her seat because the Speaker refuses to swear her in. Adelita Grijalva was elected in Arizona on 23rd September ...

When I last spoke with the historian Sudhir Hazareesingh we were talking about Black Spartacus, his prizewinning biography of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture. Now, we’re meeting again ...

Does Washington need a shake up? As the Democratic party faces its lowest favourability ratings on record, one man wants to completely change its brand. This week, Prospect’s Ben Clark speaks to ...

A stranger has been sending me emails recently. A woman in her eighties who lives in Northumberland. Her messages are full of anecdotes of a life well-lived and reading them is like tripping and ...