Jeremy Corbyn and David Cameron won’t face each other in 2020 – but who will fall first?
Both leaders are focused on the enemy within, rather than without.
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Germany's migrant crisis
Leader: The German crisis
Germany’s struggles offer lessons for all Western countries in how to respond to the question of migration – the…
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Commons Confidential: Installing McBride 2.0
Corbyn’s shoes, SNP blues – and more Trident trouble for Labour.
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Darius Guppy: My old friend Boris is wrong on Brexit
At the centre of the Leave camp’s message resides one crucial concept: sovereignty. But could they have misunderstood what…
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Meet the most studied people on earth
The party guests were each recruited, back in 1946, for a study that was intended to last the full…
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Why the row over Jeremy Heywood matters, whoever wins the referendum
Critics of David Cameron no longer blame the machine or his aides. They blame him.
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Why 1916 still decides Irish elections after a century
Again, we hear that there are no significant ideological differences between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael – both are…
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Why we should remember Aaron Swartz – the prodigy who wanted information to be free
I agree, as Swartz wrote in 2008, that “there is no justice in following unjust laws”, and the movement to…
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Don’t worry about Trump – the US political system was designed to stop the president
Plus: junior doctors sold into slavery, and a new day for newspapers.
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The time has come: I’m opening the Virgin snack box
I swore I’d keep it for ever, but when I found the hideous thing in my study the other…
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Churchill’s Secret is fine, I suppose – but I wonder why it was made
I couldn’t fathom the purpose of this dollop of heritage television, so ivy-clad it’ll soon be available on DVD…
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Bernie Sanders, the Red Mayor who wanted more
Harry Jaffe’s new book sets out to discover how a “74-year-old Jewish guy from Brooklyn” ended up appealing to college…
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How Half Man Half Biscuit have forged a career mocking middle-class idiocy
In a world in which chav-baiting is the norm, Nigel Blackwell nails the grotesqueness of the caring, sharing BoBos: the…
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Even Boris’s senior colleagues dread Tory activists handing him the keys to Downing Street
When a politician becomes entertainment first and foremost there is a danger that he, or she, may lack the…
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The strange work of French pulp writer Serge Brussolo is finally available in English
The Deep Sea Diver’s Syndrome is the first of Brussolo’s novels to be translated – and, happily, it’s also one of…
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The Returning Officer: Hemel Hempstead II
This seat was the first to have had a woman candidate from all three major parties.
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The landscape of Greenland was so empty, Morten Hilmer had to ration his thoughts
After two months on patrol, Hilmer and his colleague not only had nothing left to talk about – but…
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Ranch rage: the welcome return of Thomas Savage’s The Power of the Dog
The Power of the Dog was first published in 1967 and is now being re-released by Vintage as a “rediscovered…
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The wild mountains of Wales, Carwyn on Corbyn and why Plaid Cymru isn’t the SNP
We love our politics on Radio 2, so we’re a little shocked when the Plaid Cymru leader, Leanne Wood,…
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You know something’s up with the left when your friends are calling Peter Tatchell a racist transphobe
What the hell has happened to my friend ——’s brains, and heart, that she can put her name to…
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Hillary Clinton’s haters and the glass ceiling of American politics
Whatever you think of Clinton as a politician, it’s undeniable that she has been castigated for her ambition in…
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How to find your way around an ugly vegetable
Although supermarkets like to claim that they only stock what their customers want to buy, in 2013 a survey…
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Empire’s martyrs: the British obsession with heroic failure
The British take a perverse pleasure in glorious defeat, as Heroic Failure and the British by Stephanie Barczewski examines.
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Worried about juvenile spring eruption? Start by consulting Mumsnet
Posts reporting medical consultations showed I was far from the only doctor never to have encountered JSE. But someone…
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Goodnight Mommy is a chilling Austrian horror film with national guilt at its heart
As twins Lukas and Elias begin to suspect the woman who has come home from the hospital is not…
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When did pretentiousness become such a dirty word?
Dan Fox’s new book sets out to reclaim the P-word with an impressively broad-ranging study of art, literature and…
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Exit one smooth bald Swiss career administrator at Fifa – and enter another
After a day of glazed electioneering, Gianni Infantino has been elected. Arguably, this does count as progress.
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On the seafront, with Basil Brush, my father fought against the dying of the light
Telling Tales by Janice Turner.
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