Changing self-imposed, artificial borrowing rules, as Rachel Reeves did this week in the first Labour Budget in 14 years, cannot alter the fundamentals of the funding difficulties facing the country.

The older I’ve become the more I’ve understood the French feminist Monique Wittig’s argument that lesbians are not women but another gender (a “third” sex or gender as it is sometimes called) because ...

It has been called a national emergency, an epidemic, and a public health crisis. Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is all of those things. In its election manifesto, the Labour party pledged to ...

There was a fidgety energy in Tbilisi on election night. Young voters poured into the city’s bars to stare at their phones in disbelief that, despite predictions, the ruling Georgian Dream party had ...

The dog that didn’t bark was one of Sherlock Holmes’s most famous three-pipe mysteries. There is, by contrast, no great puzzle about the newspaper that didn’t endorse. Jeff Bezos decreed it. And when ...

For the first time, Ellen and Alona host a special Q&A episode, recorded with a live audience. They’re joined by Jill Abramson, former executive editor of the New York Times, who has been has been ...

The budget was a disorientating novelty. After four months of seemingly drifting governance, and four years of cripplingly cautious opposition, this was the moment when Keir Starmer’s Labour party ...

A narrow meaning of “the rule of law” is that the government should have a legal basis for everything it does. And by this definition it is not an especially liberal concept. Indeed, some of the most ...

Donald Trump has vowed to protect women whether we “like it or not.” How offensive. How ridiculous. He is posing as Big Daddy Protector because he is desperately worried that women will defeat him in ...

“Anybody who knows me knows that I hate an injustice,” begins Ashley Scotland, the founder of a small charity in Glasgow that supports survivors of trauma. She is addressing an online audience of ...

Preeti Jha is an editor at Semafor and freelance journalist ...