In 2014, on a Friday night just before Christmas, the US government released a heavily redacted, non-searchable, virtually unreadable document–likely hoping that it would go unnoticed in a wash of ...

Germany has been reborn three times since 1945. The first was in 1949, with the formation of the Federal Republic. The second was reunification in 1990, when West Germany absorbed the communist East.

One way of exploring the limits of law and policy is by posing hypothetical questions. This week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a legal text or other formal document is used as the basis of a wider ...

Before Elon Musk became the world’s most visible tech entrepreneur, Mark Zuckerberg was the preferred avatar of Silicon Valley. Facebook is the final product to emerge from Zuckerberg’s history of ...

A growing trend for green funerals places the natural world at the heart of the postmortem process ...

The Trump regime’s first month was designed to disempower all of us. The shock and awe of permanent provocation was intended to make citizens and leaders alike forget that we too make history, we too ...

Liz Kendall’s announcement in the House of Commons that £5bn needed to come off the welfare bill by 2030 was made in defiance of a strong Labour tradition. There is a storm to come on this question ...

The enemies of social security are not letting a good crisis go to waste. In his FT column this week, George Osborne’s biographer Janan Ganesh argued that “Europe must trim its welfare state to build ...

Canada is right to be fearful that when Trump repeatedly talks about making his northern neighbour the “51st state”, he means it. His behaviour at home and abroad since 20th January has been so ...

It is little wonder that Kim Leadbeater sounds increasingly exasperated as her bill heads into its third week of line-by-line scrutiny. “This should be a robust process with thorough checks, ...

May Serrano Fuertes is known as a sologamist matchmaker. She facilitates people in sologamy, a new practice of marriage or commitment to oneself. “Eleven years ago, I promised myself that I would be ...

What kills Labour governments? A look back over the century since the party first took power suggests one overwhelming culprit: cuts in social expenditure. In 1931, Ramsay MacDonald’s second ...