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Jimmy Carter lost the November 1980 presidential election to Ronald Reagan after failing to spring an “October surprise” by securing the release of US hostages in Iran.

There’s a scene in Steven Spielberg’s 2001 film AI: Artificial Intelligence that gave me nightmares.

Left-handedness occurs in all human societies, typically running at about 10 per cent of the population.

We were walking the earth as we always had bare feet on baked clay shod feet on soft peat with cattle and donkey, goat and sheep treading a calm rhythm beside us when a man approached bearing a fence and sign proclaiming the way was closed today and every…

Well that’s it, summer is finally over.

The American Bar in London’s Savoy Hotel is hard to get in to on a Monday at 5pm.

Carlo Rovelli, an Italian physicist, emeritus professor at the Centre de Physique Théorique in Marseille, has in the last 15 years or so established himself as a leading populariser of science.

It’s great to think there is a new guitar hero on the block and even better that no one knows who he is.

It is not just Digger’s cat that’s incontinent; it’s the whole movie.

In the long history of the West we have reached the moment at which the sense of crisis has become acute but no one seems ready to accept defeat.

Every morning, Martin Lewis reads his emails and the papers while kicking off the first 7,000 of his daily 23,000 steps on his cross-trainer.

For some years now, Amit Chaudhuri has been running a successful tour company.

If man was created in the image of God, then this American administration was created in the image of Donald Trump.

It Gets Worse is a terrific title.

In June last year, I sat in the writers’ room for Blue Lights season four, reading a Facebook page in which people were listing their house number and ethnicity, in the hope that their homes would not be burnt down.

One day, a scholar somewhere will decide that The Newer World marked a cultural watershed.

There have been times, in places such as Iraq and Afghanistan and Lebanon, when I’d have been happy to know I’d still be alive and working in an hour’s time, let alone decades later.

I generally agree with Ed Conway’s Cover Story on the UK economy (16 October), but I disagree with him when he criticises government investment in net zero.

Three hundred miles above our heads, a chase is in progress.

Greetings from Armenia, where my friends and I have come for what is turning into a quadrennial foreign get-together.

In the back seat of a taxi, Shrirang Deshmukh was dispensing some sage advice.

This column is our weekly pub review, written by pintsmen, women and children across the nation.

I have just spent a week in Israel and Palestine.

W ill the Budget “rabbit out of a hat” surprise this year be a big move on defence?

The Jackdaw gas field sits in the middle of the North Sea, 150 miles east of Aberdeen.

We live in a world where as many people have instantaneous access to porn as to clean water.

Doireann Ní Ghríofa is an award-winning Irish poet and author who has published poetry in Irish and English.

Those at the sharp end of law enforcement are known for their dark humour, and police patrolling the streets of Paris during France’s mass anti-government demonstrations are no exception.

On a drizzly morning last September, Zack Polanski delivered his first speech as leader of the Green Party.

If you ever sought out the novels of Sally Rooney in bookshops – when that was still possible – you’d know they sit in the fiction stacks adjacent to the novels of another SR whose books have been withdrawn in dastardly political circumstances.

Sally Rooney is a writer, not a terrorist.

Last week, Donald Trump introduced Katie Zacharia to the world as his new press secretary, boasting of her legal credentials and long-time loyalty to him and his Maga movement.

Thirteen years ago and straight out of university, I flew halfway across the world to work as a teaching assistant at a South Korean boarding school.

This has been a bad month for Reform.

The fullest plan yet for the UK to rejoin the European Union has been published in the wake of the Prime Minister’s call for a closer relationship with the bloc.

Digger – Alejandro G Iñárritu’s latest film – looks like it might lose Warner Bros $245m.

In 1934, while living in exile in Barbizon, a small village near Fontainebleau in France, Leon Trotsky pioneered the political strategy that is now vexing Zack Polanski.

Reform falls behind Labour and the Tories for the first time since the general election, how animals shape our voting patterns and 100 years of Winnie-the-Pooh.

Carlo Rovelli is a physicist.

To the delight of centre-left economists everywhere, John Maynard Keynes is the hottest ticket in the West End right now.

Oli Dugmore: You have written this book, End Times Fascism, in collaboration with Astra Taylor.

Andy Burnham’s first pledge as Prime Minister was to eradicate rough sleeping in England.

Ten years after the Brexit referendum, a British Prime Minister has said out loud what much of the country has concluded: Brexit did more harm than good.

In 1931, John Maynard Keynes – the economist, Bloomsbury Group member and supporter of this magazine – wrote this essay about the parlous state of Britain’s finances.

The writer and award-winning translator, Polly Barton, is one of the two debut novelists on this year’s Goldsmiths Prize shortlist.

Green councillors in power-sharing deals with Labour across the country have been given a week by the Prime Minister to disavow publicly their own party’s “Zionism is racism” position.

I have always believed we need to be honest about what is happening online.

Any young Tory staffer in search of a wife – one of the party’s wise old hands used to say – should spend his Thursday nights in the Ned, near Bank.

“To liberty and not to banishment,” Celia declares as she and Rosalind flee the court.

The seigneurial paterfamilias, the wayward sister, the working-class guest and the floppy, closeted heir to the estate.