
As the scandal around the release of the Epstein Files continues to follow Donald Trump, Peter Jukes investigates the late sex offender’s ties to Vladimir Putin-linked individuals with a curious career trajectory

Fifty years on from the UK’s 1975 referendum on its continued membership of the then European Communities, the former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister speaks to Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu about the future of our involvement in Europe, the rise of populism on both sides of the Atlantic, and how Brexit has reshaped his party…

The Plumb-Pudding in Danger, James Gillray’s 1805 cartoon of the French Emperor Napoleon and the British Prime Minister Pitt the Younger, not only satirised the two warring superpowers as they carved up the Atlantic and the European landmass between them, it also visualised the Victorian ‘great power’ theory of history.
If the product is free, you’re the product. When it comes to so much of our lives lived on social media, this is one of the defining truths of our age, and it is brilliantly realised in Vincenzo Latronico’s novella Perfection, translated into English by Sophie Hughes, which was recently shortlisted for the International Booker…
It is entirely plausible that Donald Trump, when he constantly compares US asylum seekers to serial killer Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, is confusing these two uses of the word ‘asylum’.

Peter Jukes, Co-Founder and Executive Editor of Byline Times, explains why joining Impress – the independent press regulator – is the best way to uphold accuracy and trust as investigative journalism enters a difficult new era of change
We must remember that ‘social democracy’ wasn’t just about the material benefits of the welfare system, but also something much more elusive and immaterial: people feeling they have some control over their lives and that their voices are heard. That isn’t so hard to see, nor so far away that it isn’t achievable.