Why Nietzsche has once again become an inspiration to the far-right
The philosopher was appropriated by the Nazis and now influences the alt-right. Is he doomed to be abused and misunderstood?
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How politics turned toxic
The growing threats to Saudi Arabia’s modernising leader
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, 33, is seeking to improve his country’s austere image in the West. But his…
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How Britain’s political conversation turned toxic
From Brexit rage to Labour in-fighting, we are seeing the effect of distrust, disrespect – and the polarising power…
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Moneyland: how the super-rich looted their own countries to create an elite global haven
The global rich now move their money, their assets and themselves wherever they wish, choosing which countries’ laws they…
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How the Second World War made Britain multicultural
The stories of the thousands who came to Britain from the colonies and the occupied nations of Europe during…
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Gina Miller’s diary: I had to tell a teenager it would be hard to rejoin the EU after Brexit
I wish I could have given a more reassuring reply to her deeply saddening question.
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Looking to the future: the young educators in search of new ways of teaching
As the coalition-era reforms falter and fail, some teachers are looking to the future, not to the past, for…
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Robert Graves: the reluctant First World War poet
Jean Moorcroft Wilson’s new biography convincingly makes the case for Graves as a major war poet, however much he…
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John Law: the 18th-century Scot who became richer than the king of France
The remarkable story of how John Law transformed the French economy after establishing a national bank.
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Belinda Bauer’s Snap, a rare Booker-longlisted crime novel, is uneven at best
It’s hard to understand how the Man Booker judges could have deemed Snap to be of sufficient depth or…
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New leaves: the debut novels that stormed the Man Booker longlist
The longlisted debut novelists range from an established poet to a first-time author.
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How right-wing Scott Morrison became Australia’s sixth prime minister in 11 years
It’s a measure of how far Australian conservatism has turned towards the Trumpian that Morrison was considered the mainstream candidate.
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Charles Frazier’s Varina is a novel of clear-eyed, eloquent sympathy
A flawed novel, but a fascinating one all the same.
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As a comedy, The Spy Who Dumped Me is disappointing
But there is something to be said for the film’s R-rated action.
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How Ariana Grande floated free
Grande has lifted the weight of the Manchester terror attack with a collection of gloriously oddball, career-changing pop songs.
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Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: “The hate that begins with Jews never ends with Jews”
The former chief rabbi, who has died of cancer aged 72, spoke to the NS in 2018 on Labour’s anti-Semitism problem, morality…
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Bodyguard is convoluted and preposterous – but it’s impossible not to get caught up in
Just as you think the BBC drama is on the point of quietening a little, up it would ratchet…
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Cold War is a heart-crushing film about love, music and a divided Europe
Yet in charting a doomed romance shaped by political upheavals, the film seems not to lay the necessary groundwork for its conclusion.
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Crumbling Britain: The false economy of youth club closures in Haringey
“If people had a chance to come to a place like this, they could get away from their life…
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Commons Confidential: David Miliband’s Major alliance
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The Art of Now and The Reunion voice powerful memories from two kinds of prisoners
The moving Radio 4 programmes tell of the theatrically “gladiatorial” designs of British prisons, and the heart-wrenching stories of…
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The fermented Chinese tea that scares the bejesus out of alcohol-shy Americans
Fermented long enough, Kombucha generates a mind-blowing 2 per cent alcohol – sparking US hysteria and a product recall in…
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The Lib Dems’ new slogan is “Demand Better” – and the trouble is that many voters will
The image of Vince Cable next to the phrase at conference will be particularly painful to party staffers.
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Dreams don’t come to Neasden to die: they could never have lived here in the first place
There are two things to know about Neasden: it has always been a shithole, but the demolition of nearly all…
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Private police forces threaten to take us back to the bad old days of “thief-takers”
It was to stop what were often essentially protection rackets that Robert Peel founded the Metropolitan Police.
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Leader: The anti-Semitism scandal is a moral reckoning for the Labour Party
The party’s reluctance to address the concerns raised by Britain’s Jewish community endangers its status as a beacon of…
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As Steve McManaman might say: “To be honest, the new season is looking… nice”
All last season, according to Steve, everything was nice – nice goal, nice pass, nice cup of tea at…
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Keith Allen Q&A: “I’m in love with corrugated iron chapels and churches“
The actor talks a universal wage, Starbucks’s croissants, and Roy Rogers.
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