‘Is it for people who are singers, songwriters, artists to be taking public positions on very, very controversial, difficult, complicated issues?’ Laura Kuenssberg asked the panel on her Sunday ...

William Davies joins James to consider what distinguishes intellectuals from the technocrats, academics, experts, polemicists, thought leaders, gurus and utopians who compete for our attention, and to ...

Pasta was one of many things Mussolini disapproved of, believing it made Italians sluggish and exhorting them to eat rice ...

The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...

No one can still seriously claim, as many did until recently, that the AfD is a predominantly eastern problem; yet its breakthrough was always going to arrive there, where the economic, demographic ...

The Smiths kicked off the Scottish leg of their Meat is Murder tour at the Magnum Leisure Centre in Irvine New Town ...

Planning regulations were modified last year, with AI data centres redefined as ‘nationally significant infrastructure projects’. Any attempt by a local council to reject or pause such a project can ...

James is joined by Gillian Plimmer, the FT's infrastructure correspondent, and Matthew Lawrence, director of Common Wealth, to discuss what the failures of HS2 tells us about Britain’s capacity to ...