The five ways the left can win back the Leavers
People voted Leave for many different reasons, but we can still identify key concerns that deserve a progressive response.
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The Brexit bunglers
Divides run deep in the Conservative party – could they cost Theresa May the leadership?
The division between Tory Remainers and Leavers is visceral and will not heal easily.
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Andrea Leadsom reminded me of a golf club ladies’ captain
Can Andrea Leadsom, the Brexiteer with a chequered CV, go all the way?
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Brief Encounters is warm and joyful – but no-one in Sheffield calls it “dinner“
If the program is full of misplaced nostalgia, I’m still powerless to resist its charms. Plus: Forces of Nature…
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The Returning Officer: Alice S G Brown
One August bank holiday, two of Brown’s collection of wallabies escaped.
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The original riot girls: the sparkling legacy of Absolutely Fabulous
Absolutely Fabulous: the Movie revels in the blasé humour that made the television series so groundbreaking.
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Shiraz Maher on Isis: the management of savagery
Two histories of Isis hope to shed light on the crisis in the Middle East.
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Does The Myth of Meritocracy show us how to alleviate inequality?
James Bloodworth’s new book suggests ways to tackle the nebulous problems of UK poverty.
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Jeremy Corbyn’s allies believe they’ll win again because their opponents haven’t learned from defeat
The Labour leader’s supporters have framed the “corridor coup” as part of the “old politics” rejected last summer.
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Can you die of a broken heart?
Doctors have caught up with folklore. We now know you can die of broken-heartedness.
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Why central Asian cooking is like a Russian doll
The multilayered cuisine of central Asia and the Caucasus left me feeling envious in rainy Edinburgh.
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Olive branches and bombs: President Erdogan and Turkey’s precarious politics
With relations to Moscow and the Middle East fraught, Turkey’s president faces a multitude of challenges.
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As if the world isn’t bad enough, another landlady is resigning
Between football, Westminster and Brexit, there seems to be little good news at the moment. And now it looks…
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I’ve learned the hard way: there’s no margin of error on the school run
I was hungry. I didn’t have to pick up my son for over an hour. What could possibly go…
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What do we want? Why, the clock turned back, the dead to rise and David Kelly to live
What we don’t want to do, however, is examine the paralysis this fantasy has plunged us into.
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Commons confidential: Leadsamoney’s loons
The most swivel-eyed Tory anti-Europeans were present at Andrea Leadsom’s campaign launch.
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A Tory leadership race between two women is not a feminist revolution
I have spent the day being told I should be pleased that the future leader of my country will be female. This…
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In Baghdad, a roadside bomb has killed 200 civilians – no wonder most Iraqis don’t care about Chilcot
Scarred by bombs and the rise of jihadists, Iraq has not had a day of real peace since the…
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Could Theresa May’s steely resolve win her the Conservative leadership?
It’d hard to say what will happen next, with both of the main political parties in crisis. So let’s…
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Identity papers: gender and Jewishness in Susan Faludi’s memoir of her father
In the Darkroom charts the author’s relationship with her transgender parent.
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For our party to succeed it must be a comradely coalition
I felt for Jeremy Corbyn as former Labour leaders toured the TV studios attacking him. Luckily, not every MP…
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Why the cameras have started to linger on football managers
Match becoming a grind? Cut to the managers: our dazzling, finger-sniffing rock-stars-in-waiting.
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Leader: The Iraq War and its aftermath
The war in Iraq has emboldened violent jihadis and inflamed sectarian conflict – and profoundly changed the shape of…
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Chocolate flakes and paperweights: the mesmerizing voice of Roald Dahl
Listening to Roald Dahl: In His Own Words was like hearing the writer’s whole ouvre compressed into one short monologue.
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“My love life would have been way better“: Christine and the Queens on gender fluidity and drag
The many personalities of Héloïse Letissier, awkward superstar of Christine and the Queens.
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“Bark world“: a new poem by Olivia Byard
“Rough, tough to touch, / grooved ridged scaled”.
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Midlife crisis? Why middle age isn’t a problem to be solved
Three new books examine a period of life which seems to cause untold anxiety. But isn’t there a case…
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Roald Dahl’s letters to his mother show he always had an audience of one
For all that Dahl can be both bullying and brilliant, these letters remind us who the writer was really…
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