MPs voted in favour of legalising assisted dying for the terminally ill, by 330 to 275 ...

Earlier this year, International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan sought arrest warrants for two Israeli and three Hamas leaders on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the ...

Mexico City. Born in Malta and brought up in the UK, she moved to Latin America to work as a foreign correspondent in 2006. Organised crime has been the main focus of Deborah 's two decades of ...

Esther Rantzen has to talk about death too much. In 2023, the former BBC That’s Life! presenter and founder of Childline was diagnosed with lung cancer. Her diagnosis made her value every new day, she ...

Are Jews white? Is criticism of Israel antisemitic? Why is the “Judeo-Christian” grouping a myth? To unpack these big questions, Ellen and Alona are joined by journalist Rachel Shabi, whose new book ...

After weeks of guesswork, Alan and Lionel are joined by the man behind Tortoise Media, James Harding, and journalist Carole Cadwalladr, to get the inside scoop on Tortoise’s bid for the Observer After ...

In 1787, General George Washington was reluctant to intervene in discussions about the constitution of the newly formed United States. He knew that his voice carried tremendous influence and he was ...

Hear Lionel Barber discuss his new book “Gambling Man”, the story of Masayoshi Son, the mysterious Korean-Japanese tech investor who has made, and lost, more money than anyone Join us to hear Lionel ...

Europeans have fretted about the return of Donald Trump to the White House for over a year now. After the European parliament election last summer, I reflected here on what the implications of a ...

In the wake of Donald Trump’s re-election, parallels are being drawn to George W Bush’s victories. Bush won his first presidential election in 2000 narrowly, losing the popular vote but winning just ...

In the late 1970s, when many of my contemporaries were pogoing to the Sex Pistols, others of the same age—all public schoolboys—were being beaten on the bare buttocks until they bled, in the name of ...

Donald Trump likes to talk up his links to Britain, his Hebridean mother and Scottish golf courses. But the appreciation has largely been one way: David Lammy’s description of the president elect as a ...