Owen Smith interview: “I’m pretty red”
The Labour leadership challenger is struggling to win over a left suspicious of his past.
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Cameron: the legacy of a loser
Why a man soiling himself was one of my Olympic highlights
The joy of the Olympics is how easy it is to drop in and form strong opinions about the…
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Why Julieta is Almodóvar’s most sombre film to date
Pedro Almodóvar couldn’t be boring if he tried.
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Pedro Almodóvar: “I do wake up and feel that the world is coming to an end“
Mark Lawson talks to the director about hope, despair and why he wants to make a sequel to Deadpool.
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Why Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes were a real horror couple
BBC Radio 4’s My Muse sees Kathryn Williams explore the eerie side of Plath’s life.
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Celluloid Dreams: are film scores the next area of serious musical scholarship?
John Wilson has little time for people who don’t see the genius at work in so-called “light music”.
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Too Important for the Generals: how the First World War was wom and lost
Allan Mallinson’s new book is a clear-eyed, unique appraisal of the Great War.
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Stop all the clocks: why John Wray is somewhere between Thomas Pynchon and David Mitchell
Wray’s new novel explores our esoteric obsession with time.
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What do animals think of humans?
Animals are our fellow travellers on this earth. It’s time we heard what they have to say.
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Rush and you’ll trip: reading The Lesser Bohemians
Eimear McBride’s second novel deserves all the success of her first.
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Checkmate for a broken republic: on Benjamin and Brecht
The friendship between Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht was a “conspiratorial rapport”.
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Conjuring the ghost: the “shape-shifting, queer, violent, hippie genuis“ of David Litvinoff
A new biography tracks down the elusive Kray confidant who became a friend of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
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Can Steve Bannon, the right-wing Rottweiler, save Donald Trump?
The former head of Breitbart has been hired by the troubled presidential campaign.
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Five o’clock shadow: why the beard is still in style
From George Clooney to, er, Michael Gove, men are sporting beards with pride.
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Mumslink shows how online parenting networks are coming of age
Women online are changing the relationship between digital domesticity and digital independence.
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Recess confidential: Labour’s liquid party
Sniffing out the best stories from Westminster, including Showsec, soames, and Smith-side splits.
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Inside Syria’s unending siege, civilians, not soldiers, are the victims
In Aleppo, civilian strife is just another tool of war.
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Would you jump off a cliff if someone told you to? One time, I did
I was walking across the bridge in Matlock park, which is about 12 feet high, with a large group…
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The junior doctors’ dispute hasn’t gone away – Theresa May is in for a headache
Theresa May has shown an instinct for dialogue. It’s time she used them to ensure patients’ safety.
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Mister Lizard is not at home to bailiffs – he is eating salmon pâté by the river
Why is it that when people answer the question “What’s the worst thing anyone’s ever said to you?” in…
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Why does food taste better when we Instagram it?
Delay leads to increased pleasure when you set up a perfect shot of your dinner.
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In-flight entertainment: my mid-air revelation
The practice of protecting immature eyes from mature films has seemingly been abandoned in the lawless skies.
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In the 1980s, I went to a rally where Labour Party speakers shared the stage with men in balaclavas
The links between the Labour left and Irish republicanism are worth investigating.
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Labour should be able to find a better alternative to Corbyn than Smith
The week in the media, including Cambridge entrance exams, the Brexit tourism boom, and why Owen Smith is a…
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Want to solve the pay gap? Let’s call childcare “training“
A discussion about women’s “choice” gets us nowhere. Caring labour should be supported by the state.
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Leadership contests can be a gory affair – so I was glad to provide some comic relief for Labour
My week, from performing at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Brexit satire boom and the return of the Pink Bus.
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Leader: The angry middle
As a sense of victimhood extends even to the middle classes, it makes Western democracies much more difficult to…
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