Leader: Globalisation and its discontents
Globalisation has certainly benefited Britain, but one must acknowledge, too, just how many it has left behind.
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The end of Europe
How will Labour resolve its nuclear dilemma?
Shadow cabinet ministers believe that Jeremy Corbyn will hold a free vote on Trident renewal. But the party’s troubles…
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Tony Blair’s not-so-smoking gun, Lord Lucan’s “left-wing” parents and Bond’s “moderate violence”
Bond’s violence is only “moderate”? Yes, I know there’s eye-gouging in King Lear but at least you get great poetry with…
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Patriarchal villains? It’s time to re-think St Paul and St Augustine
Paul and Augustine are blamed for any number of historical outrages. But on questions like slavery and empire, they were…
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To take on Ukip, the left needs to do more than champion the abstract idea of immigration
The government needs to connect with people based on their experience with immigrants, such as in the NHS.
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Time to swot up on chronic fatigue
Future general practitioners need to be made aware that “psychosomatic” should not be the default suspicion.
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The legend of Sonny Bill
Sonny Bill Williams’s contributions outside of matches are even more memorable than his playing.
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Ben Bernanke: Austerity went too far in the UK
The former head of the US Federal Reserve says governments “ran too quickly to budget-cutting”.
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Casualties of war in the world’s newest country
In the years since the end of the north-south war in 2005 a generation of South Sudanese had begun…
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From Cynisca to the pages of the TLS, if we write women out of history, we only get half the story
History written by men becomes men’s history. That’s why we’ve started a new prize.
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Commons confidential: Danczuk’s poison pen
Labour MPs mutter that the Rochdale Ranter, Simon Danczuk, has defected – from the Sun to the Mail on Sunday.
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A crisis without end
The disintegration of the European project.
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The last days of the Big K
Kellingley Colliery helped keep Britain’s lights on. But now, as the once mighty coal industry dies, the last deep…
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The heart of James Bond has always been in the theme song
There is a pattern now of trying to set Bond up as a somewhat tortured soul, with lots of…
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He Named Me Malala is a hagiography – a deserved one, but audiences may crave something meatier
The new adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn shows how minor decisions can be lifechanging. Plus: He Named Me Malala…
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On the threshold: The Early Stories by Truman Capote
A new collection offers an intriguing glimpse of Capote as a boy: precocious, provocative, spirited and strange, a “pocket Merlin” spinning tall tales.
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The Returning Officer: Suffragettes II
The Dublin-born Norah Dacre Fox emigrated to England in 1891.
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Cracking up in County Mayo: Kevin Barry’s Beatlebone
Beatlebone, which has been shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize, takes John Lennon to the west of Ireland.
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The earth is red. The children have bare feet and stare at you. Welcome to my new world
“Have you played GeoGuessr, Dad?” the eldest asked.
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The aural magic of binaural sound
Unusually, the hype was bettered by the experience as technical prowess brought the sounds of The Stone Tape eerily close.
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Kissinger the Kantian idealist? Maybe
Kissinger – 1923-1968: the Idealist by Niall Ferguson offered an intriguing read on the president’s foreign policy.
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“Baudelaire the dandy under a tree”: a poem by John Kinsella
“. . . in the quietest corner / of the Jardin du Luxembourg. . .”
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Dominic Sandbrook’s Let Us Entertain You is a festival of cliches
From the Beatles arriving home from America to Damien Hirst’s tedious old shark, Sandbrook’s buttock-clenching documentary disappointed. Plus: The…
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I rarely got invited on free holidays – until I went to “the St Tropez of China”
We never saw a noodle – it was all foie gras lollipops. One man announced he wouldn’t be at dinner…
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Bojo is as Bojo does: how Boris Johnson killed the art of satire
Boris had a perfect grasp of the way to play the new-old game: develop a full-blown shtick-man of a…
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Thirteen reasons why José Mourinho won’t make it past Christmas
The government has appointed a totally independent committee to advise on Mourinho. Here are its findings.
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The queen beech ruled the land, even when she fell
How the whomping willow from Harry Potter entered a new “stage of life”.
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