We’ve sleepwalked into a crisis of trust

If the most prized commodity in the 20th century was oil, in the 21st it is data. It is both our humdrum reality and our anxious obsession. It tracks everything from which online advertisements we are

Dr Liz O’Riordan, a retired breast cancer surgeon, has been diagnosed with the disease three times. This breast cancer awareness month, she rails against the deadly rise of quick cures and false promises being peddled online

Donald Trump describes the enemy as “global financial powers”. For Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, they’re “international speculators” with hidden faces. For Matthew Goodwin, national populism’s chief British

Ben Machell never believed in the supernatural. But when he started to investigate the work of a renowned parapsychologist, he found himself drawn into a strange new world

Understanding the rise of the far right

When Donald Trump took the oath of office for the second time in January 2025, he was surrounded not just by politicians and dignitaries, but by the CEOs of six of the world’s most visible technology