Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart, about France’s eighteenth-century revolutionary ferment

Feminists should be against the death penalty on the basis that the criminal justice system is built upon sexism, racism and class prejudice

Philosopher Mark Sinclair warns against the slippery slope of technological thinking

Violence is intrinsic to America and we shouldn’t expect it to cease being so when Donald Trump leaves office

Are thrice weekly Downing Street briefings finally about to start giving us reasons to be cheerful?

Under Fran Unsworth, the BBC’s news and current affairs output has let us down again and again

Was it worth it?

George Orwell has a gift for the unusual and the memorable that means that even his half-forgotten novels are well worth discovering once again

There is no reason why broadcasters should not be like newspapers: free to say what they like, within the law

The police have traded impartiality for the praise of special interest groups