Could Britain lose the first grand portrait of a person of colour?
One of Britain's most important paintings of a non-white subject could leave the UK forever next week as the deadline approaches to submit an offer to buy the Portrait of Omai from its private owner. ...
2 Mar 202329min
What Rishi Sunak’s Brexit deal actually means
On Monday the prime minister revealed his big Brexit deal with the European Union, which aims to avoid a hard border across the island of Ireland and in the Irish Sea, as well as preserve sovereignty ...
1 Mar 202335min
'Russian warship, go f*** yourself!’ What really happened on Snake Island?
On the first day of the war in Ukraine, a story emerged of a David and Goliath face-off in the Black Sea, when the Ukrainian soldiers on a small, desolate island responded to a Russian warship’s call ...
28 Feb 202329min
Can the Oscars lobbying machine ever be fair?
This week the final round of voting opens for the 95th Academy Awards – and the Oscars are embroiled in a row about diversity again. The latest controversy centres around a shock nomination for best a...
27 Feb 202327min
Borscht, books and ballet: The battle for Ukraine's identity
In the days before he invaded Ukraine, President Putin used a televised address to attack the country’s sense of nationhood and deny its right to exist. A year on from the outbreak of war, ordinary Uk...
24 Feb 202331min
Haiti: A failed state?
Kidnap, rape, riots and murder have become a part of everyday life in Haiti. Still reeling from successive natural disasters, a cholera epidemic and starvation, the people of the Caribbean nation are ...
23 Feb 202330min
Artificial intelligence: Bright new future or the end of humanity?
We have entered what many experts are now describing as a golden age of AI. If machines could be our surgeons, our judges and our artists, what would it then mean to be human? Meet the philosophers tr...
22 Feb 202331min
The case for a four-day working week
After a six-month trial, the results of the world’s biggest four-day working week pilot have been published. It found there was no hit to productivity, while staff wellbeing was improved. But could a ...
21 Feb 202323min
