A new podcast shows many people knew about the Weinstein allegations – and didn’t speak up
Gloria Allred was one of those who knew. Technically speaking, so am I.
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The great disgrace
How movies made Reagan’s America
The Hollywood films of the Eighties paint a portrait of a schizophrenic, semi-free society.
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Michel Houellebecq’s new novel Serotonin is tiresome, torpid and dated
This is a work full of pills, porn and pseudo-nuance – almost-but-not-quite clever.
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Lucy Ellmann’s 1000-page novel Ducks, Newburyport is funny and unapologetically difficult
Ducks, Newburyport is asking us to imagine what a total, unboundaried empathy with another person could feel like.
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Jesy Nelson’s body-image doc: a personal story of insecurity and shame
“I wasn’t known as just one of the singers in Little Mix,” she tells us. “I was known as…
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The Laundromat: an aggressively wacky take on the Panama Papers
This star-studded, finance-made-fun approach was patronising in The Big Short three years ago and it hasn’t improved with age.…
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The $50m Art Swindle: an astonishing film about an absurd scam
As you listen to the victims, you can’t help but queasily sympathise, even as you wonder at their credulity.
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At the risk of sounding like a creepy stalker, I like having my hair cut by a woman
When I was young “unisex” hairdressers meant “for women, and male children who have not yet achieved independence from their…
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While he’s endangering its natural landscapes, Trump can’t “make America great again”
For a time, the US was a world-leader in protecting its wild land. Now, precious habitats could be ruined…
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After years of dissent, I finally gave in to Peaky Blinders
Until recently, I had never seen the Shelby brothers stalk, Reservoir Dogs-style, through the streets of Birmingham. And I certainly…
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Post-match “talking points” are the worst. Once the game’s over, I’ve forgotten it all
Commentators pick on any passing trivial incident in a desperate attempt to turn it into a running story.
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Samantha Power Q&A: “I hope that every book changes my thinking, at least a little“
The diplomat talks the shamelessness and cruelty of Donald Trump, baseball statistics from 1979 forward, and London in the late…
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The boy from Boree Creek: the moral and physical courage of Tim Fischer
Fischer led his party through the 1990s and was deputy prime minister, before suddenly opting out to give more…
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Why Shoshana Zuboff lost faith in the digital revolution
The author on why she believes capitalism has gone “rogue”.
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Commons Confidential: Ayatollah Jeremy’s cocktail party
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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How right-wing Republicans became America’s unlikeliest anti-capitalists
At a recent conservative conference in Washington DC, the slur du jour was “neoliberalism”.
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British voters are divided into anarchists and centrists – but the anarchists are calling the shots
The preponderance of right-wing anarchists helps to explain why the Conservatives have become so profoundly unconservative.
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Why we need to hear the phrase “I don’t know” much more in a world of instant online opinions
I am disheartened by how certain everyone seems, all the time.
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David Gauke’s Diary: David Cameron’s book launch, kangaroo courts, and what makes a true conservative
I spotted ten of us former members of Team Cameron at the launch, of whom eight had lost the…
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First Thoughts: The Supreme Court ruling makes me proud to be British, and the rise and fall of Thomas Cook
An abrupt halt – at least for the time being – to Boris Johnson’s Donald Trump tribute act.
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After a bitter and divisive conference, the Supreme Court delivered good news for Labour
The ruling to declare the prorogation of parliament illegal moved the debate away from Brexit, where Labour remains divided.
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Leader: The humbling of Boris Johnson
Democracy and the rule of law have so far prevailed: MPs and judges have defied crude attempts to bypass or…
By A new podcast shows many people knew about the Weinstein allegations – and didn’t speak up
Gloria Allred was one of those who knew. Technically speaking, so am I.
By Why we need to hear the phrase “I don’t know” much more in a world of instant online opinions
I am disheartened by how certain everyone seems, all the time.
By David Gauke’s Diary: David Cameron’s book launch, kangaroo courts, and what makes a true conservative
I spotted ten of us former members of Team Cameron at the launch, of whom eight had lost the…
By British voters are divided into anarchists and centrists – but the anarchists are calling the shots
The preponderance of right-wing anarchists helps to explain why the Conservatives have become so profoundly unconservative.
By Jesy Nelson’s body-image doc: a personal story of insecurity and shame
“I wasn’t known as just one of the singers in Little Mix,” she tells us. “I was known as…
By The boy from Boree Creek: the moral and physical courage of Tim Fischer
Fischer led his party through the 1990s and was deputy prime minister, before suddenly opting out to give more…
By Why Shoshana Zuboff lost faith in the digital revolution
The author on why she believes capitalism has gone “rogue”.
By Michel Houellebecq’s new novel Serotonin is tiresome, torpid and dated
This is a work full of pills, porn and pseudo-nuance – almost-but-not-quite clever.
By How movies made Reagan’s America
The Hollywood films of the Eighties paint a portrait of a schizophrenic, semi-free society.
By Lucy Ellmann’s 1000-page novel Ducks, Newburyport is funny and unapologetically difficult
Ducks, Newburyport is asking us to imagine what a total, unboundaried empathy with another person could feel like.
By Commons Confidential: Ayatollah Jeremy’s cocktail party
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
By The Laundromat: an aggressively wacky take on the Panama Papers
This star-studded, finance-made-fun approach was patronising in The Big Short three years ago and it hasn’t improved with age.…
By How right-wing Republicans became America’s unlikeliest anti-capitalists
At a recent conservative conference in Washington DC, the slur du jour was “neoliberalism”.
By The $50m Art Swindle: an astonishing film about an absurd scam
As you listen to the victims, you can’t help but queasily sympathise, even as you wonder at their credulity.
By While he’s endangering its natural landscapes, Trump can’t “make America great again”
For a time, the US was a world-leader in protecting its wild land. Now, precious habitats could be ruined…
By First Thoughts: The Supreme Court ruling makes me proud to be British, and the rise and fall of Thomas Cook
An abrupt halt – at least for the time being – to Boris Johnson’s Donald Trump tribute act.
By At the risk of sounding like a creepy stalker, I like having my hair cut by a woman
When I was young “unisex” hairdressers meant “for women, and male children who have not yet achieved independence from their…
By After years of dissent, I finally gave in to Peaky Blinders
Until recently, I had never seen the Shelby brothers stalk, Reservoir Dogs-style, through the streets of Birmingham. And I certainly…
By After a bitter and divisive conference, the Supreme Court delivered good news for Labour
The ruling to declare the prorogation of parliament illegal moved the debate away from Brexit, where Labour remains divided.
By Post-match “talking points” are the worst. Once the game’s over, I’ve forgotten it all
Commentators pick on any passing trivial incident in a desperate attempt to turn it into a running story.
By Samantha Power Q&A: “I hope that every book changes my thinking, at least a little“
The diplomat talks the shamelessness and cruelty of Donald Trump, baseball statistics from 1979 forward, and London in the late…
By Leader: The humbling of Boris Johnson
Democracy and the rule of law have so far prevailed: MPs and judges have defied crude attempts to bypass or…
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