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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this week’s special episode, Alan and Lionel are grilled by Sheffield University’s third-year Broadcast Journalism students. The pair are asked about using artificial intelligence in newsrooms, how ...

Is proportional representation on the horizon? It is being talked up, thanks to the mini surge of Zack Polanski’s Greens and the fragmentation of the Westminster system, which has for so long pitted ...

Immigration has always been an excuse or accelerant for far-right terrorism. In the 1940s, the right-wing Jewish terrorist group the Irgun engaged in terrorist acts not out of xenophobia, but to ...

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 ...