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Universities across the country are cutting back on humanities courses – philosophy, history, modern languages – subjects long seen as centr...

Today, humanity reaches towards the Moon once more. The first crewed lunar mission in more than 50 years. But as NASA’s Artemis 2 lifts off,...

The Church of England marks a historic moment: the installation of its first female Archbishop of Canterbury. A symbol, many would say, of p...

Rising oil prices triggered by war have renewed fears of an economic shock. Governments are already under pressure to step in: to cap prices...

Relations between Britain and the United States have rarely been described as simple, but they have long been called special. Yet in recent...

Conflict has deepened in the Middle East since the United States and Israel launched a coordinated wave of air and missile strikes across Ir...

What is truth? In a special edition of The Moral Maze, we discuss perhaps the most significant question in all of human thought. It sits at...

Tommy Robinson's carol concert claimed to be "putting Christ back into Christmas". Church of England Bishops quickly pointed out that Christ...

As Australia begins its pioneering social media ban for under-16s, governments around the world will be watching closely. The move, which re...

The jury trial has been around for almost 1,000 years. Magna Carta, in 1215, enshrined the principle that “No free man shall be... imprisone...

The Dutch historian Rutger Bregman, whose BBC Reith Lectures start this week, is calling for a moral revolution to change our societies for...

The Channel 4 documentary, ‘Hitler's DNA: Blueprint of a Dictator’ has carried out a controversial genetic analysis of the Nazi leader. The...

This year’s John Lewis Christmas advert puts an emotional focus on a father-son relationship. It shows a dad and his teenage boy struggling...

Later this month, millions of demonstrators are due to take to the streets across the USA for a second time, under the banner “No Kings”. Or...

Prime Minister Kier Starmer has described the UK’s formal recognition of a Palestinian state as a “moral duty”, saying the change in policy...

Graphic details of Charlie Kirk’s death have been almost unavoidable on social media in recent days. Similarly, shocking footage of an unpro...

The party conference season kicked off with claims and counter claims about the viability of Nigel Farage’s proposals for government. One is...

One story has been dominating the news for several weeks: immigration. Whether it’s debates about how to stop the small boats, protests outs...

The decision of OnlyFans and Instagram to ban the porn star Bonnie Blue, who engaged in sequential sex with more than a thousand men in 12 h...

The Bank of England has been accused of being the 'Bank of Wokeness' after proposing to cut historical figures from banknotes. Images of Win...

Are we at risk of becoming “an island of strangers”? The Prime Minister, backtracking on many fronts, has apologised for the phrase - he say...

ID cards are back on the political agenda, digital this time, being pushed by an influential group of Labour MPs, and – surveys suggest – pu...

The National Health Service is at a crossroads. Systemic pressures are lengthening hospital waiting times. Resources are finite. That’s why...

Self-defence, as a justification for war, is much more difficult to argue if you strike the first blow. The Israelis say their devastating p...

There’s been a fair amount of focus on the concept of pronatalism recently and debate over whether it is left or right wing for governments...

Almost the first thing the newly chosen Pope Leo XIV did was to warn of the dangers of Artificial intelligence, of technological advance out...

President Trump has imposed tariffs on all America’s trade; China has hit back; other nations, including our own, are working out how to cop...

Last year was a record-breaking year for poetry sales. In the age of smartphone ‘doom scrolling’, that might seem surprising. But the boom i...

The Netflix drama ‘Adolescence’ has prompted a national conversation about a ‘crisis of masculinity’. In a society where gender roles are ch...

Proposed new guidance from the Sentencing Council for England and Wales – which is due to come into effect in April – would make the ethnici...

Sir Keir Starmer has called the current benefits system unsustainable, indefensible and unfair, and said it was discouraging people from wor...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has expressed his "gratitude" for US military support. It comes after the heated exchange in the Oval...

Three years on from the invasion of Ukraine, President Trump has called President Zelensky a 'dictator', leaving many to conclude that the U...

In every species, including homo sapiens, the family is nature’s way of passing inequality down the generations. The family gives us our gen...

Here are the instructions for your office Christmas party, issued by the Public and Commercial Services Union: “Sexual harassment and inappr...

After decades of despotism, Syria is facing an uncertain but cautiously hopeful future - though many are sceptical about the sort of governm...

The allegations about Gregg Wallace’s behaviour on set have been described as being part of a "toxic environment". Once primarily used in th...

The debate around assisted dying exposes fundamental questions about our attitudes to death. We will all die. Nothing is more certain. But i...

Donald Trump has made some eyebrow-raising, some might say jaw-dropping, appointments to his top team. While a number of the appointees stil...

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has pulled his new children's book from the shelves after complaints that it stereotyped Indigenous Australians....

The tax increases on private schools, though long trailed, were among the most emotive measures in last week’s blockbuster budget, because t...

Overcrowded, understaffed and in disrepair, Britain’s prisons are in crisis. One of the first acts of the Labour government was to announce...

“Dawn... and as the sun breaks through the piercing chill of night on the plain outside Korem, it lights up a biblical famine, now, in the 2...

In recent weeks tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in Spain’s most popular tourist destinations. From Málaga to Mallo...

The past week of brutish, hate-filled riots has been a disturbing time for Britian’s minority communities. What started as a protest against...

One moment in the Olympics opening ceremony in Paris clearly touched a nerve: the tableau of mostly drag queens believed to be parodying Da...

The Modern Olympics were founded in 1896 by a Parisian with serious moral principles . Pierre De Coubertin even made up a word for it: Olymp...

The attempted assassination of former US president Donald Trump was a dark day for American politics. We don’t know whether the gunman was i...

The idea of when to step down is front and centre in American politics as 81 year old Joe Biden continues in the Presidential race despite c...

Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Well, Camden Council for a start, who’ve put a QR code on her statue in Bloomsbury explaining that some of v...
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