To truly remember the Holocaust, we must stay alert to prejudice
The modern anti-Semite is more subtle than his great-grandparents.
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The Great Migration
“I picked that doll up and threw it in the blazing coal fire”
The children’s author talks terrifying childhood presents, Martin Luther King, and Star Trek.
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Tormented by slogans on public transport, I plot my own meltdown, manbag in hand
TFL’s new warning offers those who do not live in London another reason to be glad they don’t.
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Jeremy Hunt is still clinging to his job because he has big plans for April
A clue lies in the 2005 policy publication, Direct Democracy: An Agenda for a New Model Party, which Hunt co-authored…
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Female murder victims, Sexy Autopsy Lady and the problem with crime fiction
I watched a male detective pull the sheet off a murder victim. He gave her a glance, and added…
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The internet created giants – but the healthiest ones don’t give anything away for free
Across the media the evidence is growing that the whole free model is under terrible, perhaps terminal, strain.
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You’ll find many kinds of folly in Languedoc, the world’s biggest wine region
This over-productive area in France was once responsible for most of our easy drinking.
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Tremendous new plays Beginning and John offer differing looks at our desperation for connection
David Eldridge and Annie Baker’s works use contrasting tactics of realism and surrealism.
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Oscar-nominated Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev is the thorn in Putin’s side
The Loveless director combines philosophical ideas with daring political commentary.
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The green-belt battles of the BBC’s The New Builds Are Coming are about identity, privilege and sense of place
The middle classes perform their roles quite happily, like so many loudly clapping seals.
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Tune into a Caribbean scandal involving the married son of a PM and a model half his age
Everybody on the island of Bequia is tuning in to the morning talk show with DJ 2 Kool Kris on…
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Journey’s End is a war film not about the thick of battle, but its approach and aftermath
Saul Dibb’s film powerfully conveys the pained tenderness of comrades, and the insidious creep of fear.
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Finding horror and humour in Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad
Hadi, a junk dealer, alcoholic and habitual liar, starts collecting body parts from explosion sites, elaborately stitching them together into…
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Fiona Sampson’s search for Mary Shelley refuses the typical distance of a biography
This year marks the bicentenary of Shelley’s Frankenstein, a first novel that has become both a modern myth.
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Christ the Corbynista: what a New Testament translation can teach us about Jesus’ communist roots
David Bentley Hart points up the many deficiencies of the New International Version and the English Standard Version, which are…
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The varied and decorated career of author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
The 17 stories in At The End of the Century, drawn from past collections, chronicle Jhabvala’s concern with cultural encounters,…
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Why I prefer diaries to memoirs
Bernard Donoughue’s diaries will endure when most of the memoirs of the period are forgotten.
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Part-Arc of a Rainbow
A new poem by Ruth Padel.
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The Houses of Parliament are falling down
The Palace of Westminster needs urgent repairs costing billions of pounds. But MPs have been putting them off, even…
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Beyond the Great Disruption: confidence is finally returning to Europe
Yet none of the crises that fractured the EU in 2016 have been resolved – can its resilience remain?
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Fitness app Strava breached US security – it’s time to consider the dangers of data
In Strava’s global heatmap, shared online this week, US soldiers can seemingly be seen jogging around secret military facilities in Syria…
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Sport without doping is an impossible aim
We want sports stars to be either desperate druggies or blue-eyed cleanies, with no room for anything in between.
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Why Antonio Gramsci is the Marxist thinker for our times
The late Italian philosopher’s concept of hegemony was startlingly prescient.
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Commons Confidential: Tories take Kremlin gold
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The deportation nightmare haunting the Dreamers of the US
For many Dreamers, the children of undocumented immigrants, America is the only home they have ever known.
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The Nixon-era press held great power and responsibility – now, we are all editors
Thanks to the influence of social media, anyone trying to exercise power through old-fashioned channels faces a daily opinion…
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Encouraged by a racist president, US immigration officers are sowing fear, anxiety and panic
Putting Trump in charge of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is the political equivalent of putting a kid in…
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Every day, Conservative MPs inch closer to telling their weak and failing leader her time is up
Brexit points a dagger at the Conservatives that only a leader of above May’s ability can deflect
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Why Trump fans are flocking to read a psychology professor’s self-help book
Unlike best seller The Game, Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules For Life offers self-help that might actually be helpful.
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Lyse Doucet’s Diary: Syria’s war may be far from over, but it’s a moment to take stock
How did peaceful protests for political change turn so quickly into such unspeakable violence?
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Don’t let surging US share prices fool you – the markets fear that Trumponomics is a big mistake
The lighter fuel of bigger deficits is about to be poured on to the fire of still ultra-loose monetary…
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The European Research Group is the Tory group more powerful than Momentum
The highly secretive body seems to devote most of its efforts to what, if it were left-wing, would be…
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Leader: The return of Europe
The central reason the EU now confronts such challenges with confidence is the election of Emmanuel Macron as French…
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