The rise of scheduling free time
People are attempting to optimise their days by scheduling in free time. But with time limits and cancellations, free…
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The fantasy of global Britain
David Pemsel: from the Guardian to the Premier League
The former ad man who helped turn around the newspaper’s fortunes has been appointed chief executive of football’s top-level…
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Stewart Lee: “It feels like watching news from another country”
The comedian on how Brexit killed satire.
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Commons Confidential: Jacob Rees-Mogg goes grime
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Why the left is continuing to win in Portugal
The now re-elected socialist-led administration has reversed much of the damage inflicted by the conservatives’ austerity programme.
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The irresistible joy of Channel 4’s The Dog House
The programme matches prospective owners with dogs in need of a loving home – and hits all the same…
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Farming: a raw tale of black British racism
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s autobiographical drama about a British-Nigerian becoming a racist skinhead leaves too many questions unanswered.
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Sofie Hagen’s How To Love Your Fat: irreverent anecdotes and brutal statistics
The comedian’s Radio 4 testimony about a world that punishes fat people is frank, lively and fed up.
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Blood Wedding at Young Vic: a woozy, inky world
Entering the world of Blood Wedding is like stepping inside a Rembrandt painting.
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Kirsty Logan’s Things We Say in the Dark: surreal twists on modern fears
The Scottish writer’s short-story collection is made up of eccentric accounts of the supernatural, the dystopian and the outright…
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Permanent Record: Edward Snowden spies on the spies
The whistle-blower’s memoir is insightful, with a nice line in tech-inflected imagery.
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Zadie Smith’s Grand Union: stories from a wandering mind
Smith’s playful short stories reference #MeToo and Brexit but are at their best when they delve beyond the anxieties…
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The Secret Commonwealth displays Philip Pullman’s miraculous gifts for storytelling
Pullman’s political and social worlds echo ours in the thrilling second volume of The Book of Dust.
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In praise of Motherland
Sharon Horgan and co’s clever, funny, oestrogen-fuelled comedy is an antidote to the patronising delusions of smug parents.
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Richard Dawkins Q&A: “Don’t follow your instincts, a leader, tradition or a holy book“
The author talks David Attenborough, evolution, and Clement Attlee.
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When the rich clubs like Manchester United play badly, we say they are in a “transition stage”
With lesser clubs, we just say they are playing rubbish.
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Michael Hutchence lost his sense of smell – and it all went downhill from there
A renowned “sensualist”, in losing his sense of smell the INXS frontman had been left “floating in space”, deprived of…
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In these tumultuous times we can feel more overwhelmed than ever – not least by the endless varieties of gin
Beefeater and Gordon’s are familiar, although their shareholders must hanker for the days when the unfamiliar was a little…
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Diogenes the budgie likes Ella Fitzgerald. I suggest the Beatles and he shuffles down his perch
A cry went out: who will look after Diogenes the budgerigar? And a small voice piped up: “I’ll do…
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I move commas around for a living – and I now realise there’s no such thing as linguistic decline
Mansplain, snowflake and bae: there’s a pleasure to be found in watching a living language grow and wrestle with…
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Why sometimes the most useful thing to do is nothing at all
For me, the “factory” approach to writing defeats the whole point of being a writer.
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Philip Norman’s Diary: Jimi Hendrix in London, the babying of Britain and Corbyn’s unlikely restaurant chain
Although Jimi was born in Seattle, his story is as much a fable of mid-1960s London as that of…
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First Thoughts: Why Extinction Rebellion needs to engage with power
Blocking streets sends the subliminal message that concerns about global heating belong to the fringes.
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The Brexit talks didn’t collapse this week, they collapsed when Boris Johnson was elected
The Prime Minister’s only remaining option is, and always has been, a no-deal Brexit.
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Leader: An unserious country
A no-deal Brexit would force the UK to resume negotiations from a position of maximum weakness.
By I move commas around for a living – and I now realise there’s no such thing as linguistic decline
Mansplain, snowflake and bae: there’s a pleasure to be found in watching a living language grow and wrestle with…
By Why sometimes the most useful thing to do is nothing at all
For me, the “factory” approach to writing defeats the whole point of being a writer.
By Philip Norman’s Diary: Jimi Hendrix in London, the babying of Britain and Corbyn’s unlikely restaurant chain
Although Jimi was born in Seattle, his story is as much a fable of mid-1960s London as that of…
By David Pemsel: from the Guardian to the Premier League
The former ad man who helped turn around the newspaper’s fortunes has been appointed chief executive of football’s top-level…
By The rise of scheduling free time
People are attempting to optimise their days by scheduling in free time. But with time limits and cancellations, free…
By The irresistible joy of Channel 4’s The Dog House
The programme matches prospective owners with dogs in need of a loving home – and hits all the same…
By Stewart Lee: “It feels like watching news from another country”
The comedian on how Brexit killed satire.
By Kirsty Logan’s Things We Say in the Dark: surreal twists on modern fears
The Scottish writer’s short-story collection is made up of eccentric accounts of the supernatural, the dystopian and the outright…
By Zadie Smith’s Grand Union: stories from a wandering mind
Smith’s playful short stories reference #MeToo and Brexit but are at their best when they delve beyond the anxieties…
By Permanent Record: Edward Snowden spies on the spies
The whistle-blower’s memoir is insightful, with a nice line in tech-inflected imagery.
By Why the left is continuing to win in Portugal
The now re-elected socialist-led administration has reversed much of the damage inflicted by the conservatives’ austerity programme.
By Commons Confidential: Jacob Rees-Mogg goes grime
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
By First Thoughts: Why Extinction Rebellion needs to engage with power
Blocking streets sends the subliminal message that concerns about global heating belong to the fringes.
By Farming: a raw tale of black British racism
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s autobiographical drama about a British-Nigerian becoming a racist skinhead leaves too many questions unanswered.
By The Brexit talks didn’t collapse this week, they collapsed when Boris Johnson was elected
The Prime Minister’s only remaining option is, and always has been, a no-deal Brexit.
By Sofie Hagen’s How To Love Your Fat: irreverent anecdotes and brutal statistics
The comedian’s Radio 4 testimony about a world that punishes fat people is frank, lively and fed up.
By In praise of Motherland
Sharon Horgan and co’s clever, funny, oestrogen-fuelled comedy is an antidote to the patronising delusions of smug parents.
By Leader: An unserious country
A no-deal Brexit would force the UK to resume negotiations from a position of maximum weakness.
By In these tumultuous times we can feel more overwhelmed than ever – not least by the endless varieties of gin
Beefeater and Gordon’s are familiar, although their shareholders must hanker for the days when the unfamiliar was a little…
By Michael Hutchence lost his sense of smell – and it all went downhill from there
A renowned “sensualist”, in losing his sense of smell the INXS frontman had been left “floating in space”, deprived of…
By Diogenes the budgie likes Ella Fitzgerald. I suggest the Beatles and he shuffles down his perch
A cry went out: who will look after Diogenes the budgerigar? And a small voice piped up: “I’ll do…
By When the rich clubs like Manchester United play badly, we say they are in a “transition stage”
With lesser clubs, we just say they are playing rubbish.
By Richard Dawkins Q&A: “Don’t follow your instincts, a leader, tradition or a holy book“
The author talks David Attenborough, evolution, and Clement Attlee.
By The Secret Commonwealth displays Philip Pullman’s miraculous gifts for storytelling
Pullman’s political and social worlds echo ours in the thrilling second volume of The Book of Dust.
By Blood Wedding at Young Vic: a woozy, inky world
Entering the world of Blood Wedding is like stepping inside a Rembrandt painting.
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