John Smyth, who died in 2018 aged 77, was born in Canada to parents who were members of the cultish Plymouth Brethren. The ...

For skiers Canada may be known for its magnificent powder snows, stunning scenery and exciting downhill runs. But it is fast becoming infamous for an entirely different type of slippery slope: what ...

My mother, Prof Felicia Huppert, was an amazing person—a pioneering psychologist, transforming research into everything from dementia to wellbeing, an inspirational mentor, and a brilliant mum. But I ...

Will Friday’s debate be cancelled? Probably not, but stopping the debate is the aim of an amendment put down by a cross-party alliance in the last few hours. Ben Spencer, a Conservative MP, Munira ...

Although TS Eliot was arguably the most influential literary critic of the 20th century, for decades, scholars worked without a collected edition of his critical prose, which was scattered through the ...

It is generally agreed that being the archbishop of Canterbury is an impossible job. In modern times, tenures can begin with ...

Earlyish in my journalistic career I was interviewed for a job by the late Robert Maxwell, now perhaps best known as the father of Ghislaine. For those too young to remember, he was an overbearing, ...

Alan Rusbridger is the editor of Prospect and the former head of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He was editor of the Guardian from 1995 to 2015.

Why Trump’s most radical cabinet pick might be a man you’ve never heard of The incoming president has made a series of wild selections to run his key government departments. They will offer Trump both ...

The Labour government is already being dismissed as a standard tax and spend administration, as if raising taxes and public spending were some kind of socialist novelty. The verdict is a couple of ...