Volume 37, Number 3, September 2026
Editor Kim Fletcher
There’s a short answer when people ask what our latest prime minister brings that his predecessor did not. He’s good at communication. We have little idea what Andy Burnham stands for and no sense of where he plans to lead the country. But we have glimpsed a lively,...
Five years after the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, there is little ambiguity about the character of their second regime. Women and girls have been stripped of education, employment and much of public life. Independent media have been dismantled, dissent...
As social media feeds fill with AI-generated imagery, even the tech savvy are losing track of truth
Too many court cases are going unreported. The government’s closure of an online database has made things worse
The big fear for journalists used to be libel. Now there is so much more to worry about