Keir Starmer’s Blairite playbook
Sir Keir Starmer is on the pre-campaign trail this week, promoting his five missions that Labour are pledging to achieve if they win the upcoming election. It comes after the most detailed polling yet...
25 Jan 202427min
Why measles cases are surging
UK health chiefs have declared a national incident following a surge in measles cases in the Midlands and London, and the World Health Organisation warned yesterday that it's spreading rapidly across ...
24 Jan 202424min
Battles, beauty salons and lost friends: Eight years in the Middle East
Louise Callaghan has spent most of the last decade reporting from the Middle East. During that time she witnessed a coup attempt in Turkey, the battle to free Mosul, and was the first Western journali...
23 Jan 202424min
Sathnam Sanghera's Empireworld: How British imperialism shaped the globe
Following his seminal book Empireland, Times writer Sathnam Sanghera now looks at the legacy of colonialism for the billions of people Britain once ruled over – from houseplants to the state of democr...
22 Jan 202426min
Death row execution: Alabama's first suffocation
After trying - and failing - to kill him via lethal injection, Alabama is planning to execute death row inmate Kenneth Smith next week using an untested method - nitrogen suffocation. But why are they...
19 Jan 202425min
South Africa’s genocide case against Israel
Three months into the war in Gaza, the conflict has reached a courtroom: the International Court of Justice in the Hague. South Africa says we are witnessing a genocide take place in real time. Israel...
18 Jan 202432min
How Mean Girls made ‘fetch’ happen
Twenty years after Mean Girls introduced Regina George and her pink-clad Plastics to cinema screens, the high-school Queen Bee is back in a new musical film and a West End stage musical. So why is a f...
17 Jan 202425min
Who are the Houthis and will the airstrikes stop them?
Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthis began firing missiles into Israel shortly after the invasion of Gaza. But when the rebels started targeting commercial shipping vessels in the Red Sea, the US and UK hit...
16 Jan 202428min
