For the first time, Ellen and Alona host a special Q&A episode, recorded with a live audience. They’re joined by Jill Abramson, former executive editor of the New York Times, who has been has been ...

“Anybody who knows me knows that I hate an injustice,” begins Ashley Scotland, the founder of a small charity in Glasgow that supports survivors of trauma. She is addressing an online audience of ...

It has been called a national emergency, an epidemic, and a public health crisis. Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is all of those things. In its election manifesto, the Labour party pledged to ...

The dog that didn’t bark was one of Sherlock Holmes’s most famous three-pipe mysteries. There is, by contrast, no great puzzle about the newspaper that didn’t endorse. Jeff Bezos decreed it. And when ...

The older I’ve become the more I’ve understood the French feminist Monique Wittig’s argument that lesbians are not women but another gender (a “third” sex or gender as it is sometimes called) because ...

A narrow meaning of “the rule of law” is that the government should have a legal basis for everything it does. And by this definition it is not an especially liberal concept. Indeed, some of the most ...

Donald Trump has vowed to protect women whether we “like it or not.” How offensive. How ridiculous. He is posing as Big Daddy Protector because he is desperately worried that women will defeat him in ...

Pulitzer-winning journalist Steve Coll analyses the election, and Robert Kagan discusses his resignation from the Washington Post following a controversial decision Just days ahead of the US election, ...

The budget was a disorientating novelty. After four months of seemingly drifting governance, and four years of cripplingly cautious opposition, this was the moment when Keir Starmer’s Labour party ...

Thomas did not want his friend to become a martyr. Peter Lynch, he told me, was never one to look for trouble at protests. “He was an ordinary working-class man. He was calm,” Thomas said, clutching a ...

On a bright evening in June, Anna and her husband Des donned animal masks and proceeded to a location on the outskirts of Leeds. There they found likeminded people, some in simple disguises like ...

As Halloween approaches, Ellen and Alona are joined by journalist Gabriel Gatehouse to discuss his plunge into the world of conspiracy theories, QAnon and the extreme fringes of US politics. What have ...