When Alvi Choudhury opened his door to two police officers in January, he assumed they wanted footage from his video doorbell. “Hello officers, I’m not in trouble, am I?” he joked. “Alvi, right?” one ...

In 1996 and 1997, the reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov played a series of games against Deep Blue, an IBM supercomputer optimised to compete against humans in tournament conditions.

In this episode of Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat, an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists ...

Thirty years ago, when I reported on politics for BBC Newsnight, we occasionally dipped our toes in the murky waters of political theory. As ours was a television programme, we needed pictures. Which ...

In a dilapidated building, two rebel archivists collect items from bulldozed sites around their crumbling city, in a desperate attempt to preserve memories of their rapidly vanishing home. Outside the ...

In the last year, the United States has transitioned from flawed liberal democracy to competitive authoritarianism. In this new regime, institutions as diverse as universities, law firms and news ...

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s legal texts are section 19 of the Public ...

“LinkedIn doesn’t know me anymore,” someone complained to me recently. “What do you mean?” I asked. She explained that the platform has replaced the old “recommended jobs” section, which used to show ...

This week, writer and activist Laura Bates joins Ellen and Alona to discuss her latest book The New Age of Sexism. Best known for founding the Everyday Sexism project in 2012, Laura has spent more ...

Its owners do, however, have one problem. “That overflow pipe,” said Dawn Farnworth, who established By the Wye with her husband, Steve, five years ago. “It never just trickles out, it gushes out.

Every news bulletin brings more breathtaking brutishness from the Trump administration. One day it’s “disappearing” immigrants; another, disdaining court orders. On yet another it might be pardoning ...

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s legal texts are section 51(6) of the Senior ...