At the end of last year, he saved the prime minister. In 2018, he holds the fate of the whole country in his hands. It's time to pay attention to Michel Barnier

Gossip has always existed—in fact, it might even do us good. But what happens when rumour goes online?

From Sudan to Versailles, Cairo to Tehran, protests have always begun with the price of bread rising. And in 2018, it's still the best barometer we have for class, capitalism and power

From the decline of the NHS to the election of Donald Trump, insights from analysis can help us understand our fragile political times

A psychoanalyst once summed up glibly the two approaches: Freudian—your mum was mean to you. Kleinian—you think your mum was mean to you

In our monthly podcast, Tom Clark and guests discuss hyper-globalisation and its pitfalls

Every available statistic shows a system that is inexorably lurching from chronic failure towards acute crisis

Smile or die

Third way evangelists presented globalisation as inevitable and advantageous to all. In reality, it is neither, and the liberal order is paying the price

Isolation and loneliness are seen as the fault of technology when, on closer inspection, that same technology can bring us closer together