Things have got so bad, I don’t even want to let the benevolent cleaner in
My bedroom is in a state of such grisliness that I ask myself whether I have now hit A…
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Corbyn’s revenge
Stop moaning about Europe – Brexit is the least of our troubles
In a corrupt, divided UK, there are plenty of problems down the line whether we leave or remain.
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Hot or not: why teens can’t stop rating each other online
From Instagram to Snapchat, teenagers are using popular apps to request, and award, appraisals. But what does it mean…
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You snooze, you lose: why sleep is back on the agenda
A history of sleep from the premoderns to today’s health geeks reveals that today’s “sleep revolution” is not as…
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The songs I write are usually described as “personal” – but for me they’re political
“Political songwriter” was a monikor reserved for Billy Bragg, or Paul Weller, or the Redskins. But not all political music…
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Top of the food chain: Deliveroo and the app economy
Will Shu founded Deliveroo in 2013. Now, rumour has it the company will soon be worth $1bn.
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The most memorable moments of Test Match Special
From the quirky to the downright awkward, the best of this season’s cricketing radio.
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The ambiguous heroism of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Black Panther
Coates draws on a rich, modern African-American mythology to turn T’Challa into the Black Panther: Marvel’s African superhero.
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Leader: The good and the bad of Olympic success
No matter how inspired future generations feel by our Olympians’ success, they will not be able to emulate it…
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Why it is the duty of the Labour party to try to stop Brexit
Brexit will be a disaster for the families that Labour represents. It’s up to us to lead the fightback.
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How Serious Sweet upends our assumptions about love – and politics
A L Kennedy’s satire on Whitehall has moments which fire like gunshots across the page. A shame, then, that…
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Tom Watson should be less fussy about Trots
Reflections on a week in media, from NHS plots to why I am an Olympics humbug.
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Man in a box
James Medd luxuriates in Clive James’s TV criticism.
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How the death of a militant in Kashmir went viral
Burhan Wani was a 22-year-old Hizb al-Mujahedin commander. In life, he resuscitated the flagging insurgency. Now, his death has put it on…
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A week in Momentum, from courtrooms to coups
Inside the Corbyn surge, what we learned from Bernie Sanders and what Brexit means for Labour.
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History without reservations: unpicking the myths about Native Americans
I grew up in New York City and had what most people would consider an exceptionally liberal education: yet…
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Welcome to Britain, where even the anti-elitist movements are led by elites
Nobody thinks they’re the “elite” – after all, if they were, wouldn’t they feel a bit more powerful?
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Why Teju Cole proves the 21st-century essay is in fine fettle
Cole’s collected essays, Known and Stranger Things, combines good writing with emotion and intellect.
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Fight the power
K Biswas learns a new lexicon of protest with Sarah Jaffe’s Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt.
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What we can learn from Eddie Jones’s transformation of English rugby
Success is always a balancing act, and Jones is a master of both diligence and surprise.
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When it comes to Brexit, Nicola Sturgeon has overplayed her hand
My week, from Twitter hounding, the politics of independence, and why Europe matters for the Edinburgh Festival.
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The man at our table was a beggar, and he was asking Alistair Darling for change
Chancellors may be handy with big money – but they’re not quite as good at finding a quid for…
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Cringe merchant: why Ricky Gervais just isn’t funny on the big screen
David Brent: Life on the Road is great in the details, but lacks the dramatic range required by cinema.
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Recess Confidential: Corbyn against the world
The unlikely crossover between Corbyn supporters and Millwall fans.
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Caught in the cross-hairs: the firearms officer who was put on trial for murder
Channel 4’s Secrets of a Police Marksman shows us the world through the eyes of master shooter Tony Long.
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Meet the slithering serpent at home in the Alpine Eden
I went to Switzerland for quiet and found the Vipera aspis – a common species in the canton of Valais.
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Why Richard T Kelly’s The Knives is such a painful read
It is well known that Stendhal compared politics in a novel to a gunshot in the middle of a concert – this…
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