How I learned to walk miles on a midnight marathon across London
Between Clare Balding striding into the road to stop traffic and Grace Dent’s elegant glide, we survived the Moonwalk.
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Should Labour split?
The child was 11, maybe 12, and he was trying to buy a branch of Starbucks
As the tiny Donald Trump waved his Blackberry, I thought: I really have to stop living in Hampstead.
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Why we seek out new planets
If you want to know how likely we are to find a ninth planet lurking at the edge of…
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How do you teach psychogeography?
The idea is that the students undertake their own version of a dérive – the aimless drift through the city that…
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This is London: to know the future of our cities, we must see immigration close-up
This Is London: Life and Death in the World City by Ben Judah should be mandatory reading for every…
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The Returning Officer: Hythe
In 1929, Hythe became the first UK constituency to have two women candidates at the same general election. Grace…
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The last Rastafarians
“Babylon is not about race,” he says. “It’s about any unjust state or system.”
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The latest video from Islamic State was its most menacing warning to Britain yet
This is not the first time IS has appeared to threaten Britain, but the appearance of Tower Bridge and…
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Could the challenge from ITV be just what the BBC needs?
Tom Bradby’s “bloke in the pub” act may grate, but there is no reason for the BBC to be…
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“Viki”: A new poem by Anthony Thwaite
“Thirty years later, in the Sheffield synagogue, / I saw you marry Norman, heard the strange sad chants”.
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Playing the unplayable: the composers whose work and lives were threatened under Stalin
An evening of Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Khachaturian.
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Bad news at the Guardian – is it too late to apply the brakes?
The Guardian’s abiding problem is that the people who run it seem unable to add up, or at least…
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The political perils of Keeping Calm and Carrying On
What Owen Hatherley’s The Ministry of Nostalgia ultimately misses is that our relationship to the past is about personal taste…
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Could Portugal give new hope to Europe’s warring left?
Jeremy Corbyn certainly thinks that Portugal’s new government may be the place to look for politicians hoping to lead…
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Paolo Sorrentino attracts great actors – but they’re wasted on Youth
Jane Fonda, Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel are all exceptional in Youth, but its messages are rather beneath them.
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Leader: The Corbyn conundrum
Since all agree that Mr Corbyn will lead Labour into this May’s elections, talk of a future “coup” or…
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Though Hillary Clinton has flaws, I’ll enjoy seeing her mash Donald Trump into a smear of hair tonic
Hillary is a caricature of the compromises ambitious women have to make to attain any sort of standing –…
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Our Premier League is the best in the world. So where are all the good players?
Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar and Suárez are the four best players in the world – but none of them plays…
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Deciding which jail to send a trans prisoner to isn’t always clear-cut. And accusations of bigotry don’t help
There are hard choices and conflicting rights that we need to navigate when updating the law on gender.
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Subtitles used to belong to art-house cinemas – now they’re everywhere, and shriek middle-class excitement
On Channel 4’s new foreign drama platform Walter Presents, Spin is French and sexy, and Clan a dark Belgian comedy. Plus: The Real Marigold…
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Why do we like the foods we like – and can we change our taste?
Bee Wilson’s First Bite takes us back to childhood to explore how we form our feelings about food.
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Commons confidential: Every day reshuffling
The ongoing reshuffle, more bad news for Simon Danczuk Media Ltd – and is Liam Gallagher a Corbyn fan?
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If non-EU nationals have to earn £35,000 to work here, my sex life is over
People earning over £35,000 do not cavort with the abandon of those earning less.
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Spill Simmer Falter Wither is a powerful meditation on humanity
Sara Baume’s sympathy for her “wonkety” characters is infectious, and turns this portrait of an unusual friendship into something…
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Opposing austerity is not enough – Labour’s leaders need lessons in economics, fast
John McDonnell’s economic advisor speaks out about about Labour’s fiscal and welfare policies.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is on the World Service – and it’s clear he takes Method acting seriously
You have to admire DiCaprio’s performance, no question, but “epic neo-realism”?
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Don’t give up the hunt for the Green Man
Our interactions with trees nourish our inner life, even at the darkest times.
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Labour won’t split but MPs are preparing for a reckoning with Jeremy Corbyn
The leader’s opponents expect to try and unseat him next year.
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Bill Rodgers: “It’s very difficult, very painful to leave”
35 years after the SDP broke away, Bill Rodgers of the Gang of Four talks to Stephen Bush.
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Should Labour split?
Thirty-five years on from the Limehouse Declaration, Labour MPs are again talking about breaking away. We ask politicians past…
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Steven Moffat has produced some great Doctor Who. So how did he become so hated?
The self-deprecation paradox.
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