Centrism used to be such a nice word. Cast your mind back to the 1990s, when Bill Clinton championed the “vital center” and Tony Blair’s Third Way was electorally unstoppable. In the afterglow of the ...

When the saga of the double-decapitation of the two most senior BBC executives comes to be written, historians might care to trace it back to Dougie Smith, a shadowy backroom fixer once described as ...

A man in his late twenties recently enquired about booking me with an unusual request. He wanted to hire me for an hour for a very specific, non-sexual roleplay. Basically, he had played a prank on ...

A groundbreaking documentary, of which I am a part, has shed new light on the dictator’s life—and, by extension, on the 20th ...

Writing a proper biography of Shakespeare is virtually impossible given the shortage of hard data about him. Actually, it’s not that limited for someone who lived 400 years ago, and who never got ...

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Less than a month after unveiling the latest version of its AI video tool Sora, OpenAI has been forced to put new guardrails on the app—where users share a TikTok-like feed of videos generated from ...

It’s Halloween again, the season of the witch. Once you’re done with trick and/or treating, you might want a scary movie to watch. And, right now, there’s no shortage of those. As has been widely ...

Parents call toddlers tyrants, and for good reason. They rule by appetite and tantrum, and their subjects—us—live in permanent negotiation with irrational power. My youngest has long since graduated ...

As American firm RedBird continues its bid to take over the Telegraph, Alan and Lionel discuss concerns about foreign influence and what it means for media ownership in Britain. They weigh in on Ofcom ...