I have been worrying about my neck size. It’s 16-and-a-half since you ask, and I have a full collection of M&S shirts to prove it. But I’m not sure my neck is… OK, I’m going to say it, masculine ...

I have been worrying about my neck size. It’s 16-and-a-half since you ask, and I have a full collection of M&S shirts to prove it. But I’m not sure my neck is… OK, I’m going to say it, masculine ...

It has all happened so quickly. Not long ago I climbed a mountain, and now I hesitate to walk half a mile to the shops. A cataclysmic change occurred when I turned 90. Overnight the world branded me ...

What percentage of the country think pollsters get their polls right? Polling was never an exact science and, even with the development of techniques such as MRP, it never will be. Trying to arrive at ...

Armando Iannucci—satirist, writer and producer—joins Alan and guest host Janine Gibson to discuss the comedy (and tragedy) of Elon Musk How do you solve a problem like Elon? The billionaire owner of X ...

Keir Starmer sounds confused about wealth—but then maybe any politician would. The prime minister talks, compulsively, about rebalancing life in favour of “working people”. He modestly raised some ...

As Labour plans to remove the remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords progress through parliament, not everybody is happy about it. Critics have called the legislation “bungled piecemeal ...

This “weekly constitutional” is not based directly on a court judgment, but on another formal legal document, the report submitted by United States special counsel Jack Smith under section 600.8 of ...

For Britain and Europe, the German election on 23rd February may be as important as the US election that returned Donald Trump to the White House. It is likely to see Friedrich Merz, a longstanding ...

In the depths of an awful bout of the flu, I recently found myself bingeing the second season of Netflix’s Squid Game. This being a Korean drama about a carnivalesque series of deadly games, my ...

Alan and Lionel are joined by Janine Gibson to discuss the usual suspects: Trump, Musk, and now Mark Zuckerberg. Plus, one of our editors receives an intriguing phone call about Prince Harry Alan and ...