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New app “Being” pushes online voyeurism further than ever before
The app, and the impulses that inspired it, are proof that we don't just want to watch the people we follow – we want to know what it's like to be them. I log on, and idly scroll through Taylor...
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Senior Momentum member expelled from Labour
Jill Mountford, a member of Momentum's ruling committee, has been kicked out of the Labour party - and more members may follow. A member of the ruling committee of Momentum, Jill Mountford, has been...
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What the Green Man can teach us about our place in the world
Nina Lyon's new book, Uprooted, uses the Green Man to excavate a bigger question: humankind's relationship to nature. I recently looked into the face of a moth for the first time. I was running a...
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It’s not self-indulgent to prioritise choice in maternity care
Birth is painful, frightening and unpredictable, and it is also highly politicised. I knew I should have waited a little longer before having my third child. According to the Times headline “Pregnant...
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How the government is leaving whistleblowing doctors to twist in the wind
The government isn’t even pretending to protect whistleblowing doctors. To the untrained mind the sheer incomprehensibility of legal talk can make courtroom proceedings seem like a thick layer of...
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"Torture" and "agony": Michael Gove's EU decision-making hell, revealed by...
Daily Mail columnist and wife of the Justice Secretary, Sarah Vine, has revealed the horrors of her husband making up his mind on the EU referendum. Here are the highlights. Something really dreadful...
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In this week's magazine | The Boris backlash
A first look at this week's issue.26 February - 3 March 2016 issueThe Boris backlashCover Story: The Boris backlash. Andrew Gimson on David Cameron’s mission to destroy the great pretender.Stephen...
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David Cameron tells Jeremy Corbyn to "put on a proper suit, do up your tie,...
The "Yo Momma" of all parliaments. Your mole tends to avoid PMQs, preferring to watch University Challenge when the urge to watch posh people making incomprehensible noises arises. So it missed an...
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PMQs review: David Cameron's mother spoils Jeremy Corbyn's day
A Labour MP's careless heckle was a gift to the Prime Minister.Today’s PMQs started in wearingly familiar fashion: a Labour leader attacking a Conservative prime minister over the NHS (in this case...
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Welcome back, All Saints – the girl band that made me the lesbian I am today
Because of All Saints, I bought my first pair of cargo pants and practised looking crestfallen. This entire aesthetic fit perfectly with my burgeoning lesbianism.“A few questions that I need to know,”...
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Our Kids reveals American class inequality - with has all-too-evident...
Robert D Putnam has created an absorbing sketch of the US, drawn from hundreds of interviews with families. Robert D Putnam is that rare creature, a political scientist who has risen above specialism...
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#BritsSoWhite: audiences criticise the awards’ exclusion of black British...
Commentators have been particularly surprised by the omission of British grime artists. The BRIT Awards are no stranger to controversy – including interrupted speeches, performance tumbles and literal...
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Will Euro 2016 have an impact on the EU referendum result?
The June referendum falls in the middle of the festival of national identity that is the European football championship. On 23 June, over 100,000 people eligible to vote in the EU referendum will be...
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Ted Cruz tweeting a "Fat Bastard" clip at Donald Trump is normal for US...
Countless debates and TV interviews can only do so much. Unless you're shouting down Donald Trump. So apart from waking up in a cold sweat this morning after seeing Donald Trump continue his leisurely...
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Director Carol Morley's debut novel joins a rich canon of writing by...
Like her films, Morley's 7 Miles Out is marked by the absence of men in a richly-realised northern culture. Where once the northern, working-class stories of David Storey, Alan Sillitoe et al were...
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Britain remains a country dominated by the independently educated
The Sutton Trust expose the stranglehold of private schools over law, medicine, journalism and beyond. In Britain today, where a child went to school remains the best indicator of how far they will...
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I grew up in South Africa, so believe me when I say: Israel is not an...
This week on university campuses across the UK, activists are preparing for “Israel Apartheid Week”. This term is not only misleading, but a grave insult to those who were subjugated in South Africa....
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The world of work is changing, so Labour must too
Technology opens up new opportunities - but new avenues for exploitation, as well. Airbnb, Uber, TaskRabbit, Upwork – names none of us had heard of just a few years ago. But now five million people in...
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Climate activists spared jail: does this make their protest a success?
Exploring the charges that have changed environmental history. Activists who blockaded a Heathrow runway are celebrating avoiding jail today, in what is being hailed as a victory for the climate...
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The Tory split that Labour craved has arrived - but the party can't exploit it
The opposition's own divisions and Jeremy Corbyn's euroscepticism leave it sidelined from the EU referendum debate. Addressing a newly elected Conservative MP, Winston Churchill explained that while...
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