On 27th January 2025, the stock price of one of the world’s highest-flying companies, Nvidia, fell 17 per cent. The stock ultimately lost almost $600bn in value, a record loss for any publicly traded ...

For Alfred Brendel, now 94, climbing up to the top floor of his Hampstead house has become increasingly challenging. Whenever he’s in London, he’ll make that ascent with great determination, slowly ...

After a hiatus to vote in the Commons a rather breathless Kim Leadbeater arrived back in the committee to explain why assisted dying had to be a core NHS function, but why also private companies would ...

I was frazzled, late, tired, hungry and depleted of vitamins when I arrived at the door of a charming nail salon in downtown Athens. It has become customary for me to book a nail appointment when I ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For too long, UK decision-makers have prioritised economic growth for the country over the economic security of its people. The relationship between the two has been viewed largely as sequential and ...

Keir Starmer hit on the metaphor for how he hoped to govern a couple of years ago, when he first vowed to end “sticking plaster politics”. He repeated it endlessly, because it encapsulated so much of ...

This month’s episode features journalist Kiran Sidhu on the power of communal dance, and actor and writer Sheila Hancock on the need for more women in global politics. Gen Z-er Alice Garnett imagines ...

Radical change is needed to redesign the UK’s housing system. That’s why it is encouraging to see the Labour Party make tackling the housing crisis a central focus of its early government agenda.