The influential German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has died aged 96, leaving behind a body of work famous for a theory of political consensus-building. Despite being a member of the post-Marxist Frankfurt school that founded critical theory, he believed that Jewish and Christian thinking had...

A clause in the Crime and Policing Bill, inserted in the House of Commons last year, will disapply the existing criminal law for women who access an abortion outside the legal limits. This means that a woman seeking an abortion outside the terms of 1967...