My manifesto for a better world, by Booker winner George Saunders
To those who would oppose us, I would simply say: we are many. We are worldwide. We, in fact, outnumber…
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Poor Britannia
Pauline Black Q&A: “My trilby is so battered it looks like Top Cat’s“
The musician and actress talks looking for her birth parents, alternative facts, and the musical Hair.
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How the rise of Man City’s star player reminds me of editing Jilly Cooper’s columns
For a brief, fleeting moment many years ago I created an environment in which she flourished as a writer.
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The patient arrived with two undiagnosed issues: back pain and aggression
Fear and anger are very close cousins.
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Why music and corporate restructuring have more in common than you’d think
A powerful New York management consultant turns her hand to composing.
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It is hard to conceive of a hotel room any smaller into which a human being could fit
I am not in the mood for company – or for nutjobs who voted for Brexit.
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Abroad is a place where commonplace birds and plants become things of wonder
I constantly fall by the wayside on walks, drawn to an insignificant rock plant growing in the cracks of…
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Ed Miliband is a talented podcast host – God knows, it’s easier than politics
The former Labour leader is prone to saying, “Oh, crumbs,” and paraphrasing slave abolitionists.
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Netflix’s Mindhunter is nothing if not suspenseful
For all its virtues, this show is nasty in many of the same ways as the BBC’s The Fall.
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Call Me by Your Name: an emotionally charged love affair taut with inner tensions
Luca Guadagnino is an intensely sensual director, but he knows how to undercut a moment.
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Albion and Saint George and the Dragon: two plays asking what Englishness means
Using starkly different tones, they eventually come to the same conclusion.
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Even when Stranger Things 2 struggles to join the dots, you can’t deny its charm
The charisma of the Netflix show’s young cast is still irresistable.
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Through seven works in seven cities, how Europe bared its soul through opera
The V&A’s exhibition is not only a celebration, but a cause for celebration.
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The hunt for a “complete edition” of Fernando Pessoa’s fragmentary masterpiece
Anyone who knows the history of The Book of Disquiet will know what a bold claim completeness is.
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Vampire writer Kim Newman roams gleefully through history with a stake and a mallet
Anno Dracula 1899 and Kim Newman’s Video Dungeon are complex, funny and full of hyper-accurate references.
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Know Your Place is a revelatory self-portrait of the working class
There’s a pleasing, utterly unself-pitying sense of anger in this collection of essays.
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The NS Poem: Sitting Tight (Martin Luther hides out in Wartburg Castle)
A new poem by Siriol Troup.
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Where the Wild Winds Are: Nick Hunt weathers the storms of Europe
Aided by meterologists, the author embarked on a series of “wind-walks”.
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Comedians are offering their services as self-help gurus – but are they any good?
Russell Brand, Sarah Millican, Simon Amstell and Marc Maron tackle mental health in their new memoirs.
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How liberals can reclaim Utopia
In the face of populist fantasists and authoritarians, we must draw inspiration from Cicero and Jefferson and reaffirm the…
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How Brexit has made Britain the new sick man of Europe
The UK is too unbalanced, too unproductive and too unequal. To this amalgam of woes, a new menace has…
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Stranger Things shows just how much Netflix has transformed TV
Silicon Valley economics allow the company to back shows that might not find a home elsewhere.
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A hesitant radical in the age of Trump: David Brooks and the search for moderation
The New York Times columnist rejects Trumpism – but understands what has enabled it.
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Commons Confidential: Another windfall for the DUP
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The Kurds’ last stand: how Iraq quashed hopes of secession
Independence now appears impossible – and some of the autonomy that the region once enjoyed is gone, too.
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We are governed by Peter Pans who refuse to look after the next generation
The Tories have a young-people problem – the problem being that young people hate them.
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How Facebook ate the media – and put democracy in peril
The tech giant could turn off its taps and whole news outlets would die of thirst.
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Peter Stothard’s Diary: Thatcher’s plotters, and memories of the battle of Wapping
The author and journalist asks: would any of my Senecans have backed Brexit?
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Don’t expect Brexit to bring about a new dawn in the rest of Europe
We should be wary of leaping from one simple narrative to the next.
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Was Donald Trump right when he said soldiers “know what they sign up for”?
Military recruitment literature presents service careers as opportunities for adventure.
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Leader: A universal failure
Rather than minimising the strife and stress that low earners face, the government is intensifying it.
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