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Eddie Izzard to run for Labour's NEC
The comedian and actor will seek a place on the party's ruling executive. Eddie Izzard, the comedian and actor, has announced that he will run as a candidate in Labour’s coming elections to the...
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Leicester City have revived the Premier League by reconnecting with sport’s...
At times during my cricket career, it felt as though sport had been turned into Gradgrindian pedagogy. Leicester's fearless showing in the Premier League is a breath of fresh air.“The World of Charles...
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How English football got rich
Even for middling teams, huge figures are the new normal. Why? At the end of February 2015, Leicester City were at the bottom of the Premier League. A year later, they are at the top, with legitimate...
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The Returning Officer: Hastings III
In 1931, Isobel Goddard was the second woman to stand for Labour in Hastings. In 1931, Isobel Goddard was the second woman to stand for Labour in Hastings. The Sussex Agricultural Express noted that...
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“From my window, north: winter”, a poem by Dominic Cooper
Knuckled may lie this dark of earth. . .*/ The tiercel-gentle, so sharp and sure, tears out from blinding coverts of the air and flings away, chasing some shimmered hope into the windless falls on...
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I admired Castro’s buttocks, clad in combat fatigues of the finest parachute...
In 2001, I invited myself to Cuba to see my favourite rock group, Manic Street Preachers, play a one-off show at the Karl Marx Theatre in Havana. The allure of communism was a big thing for my...
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Hunter Davies on Margaret Forster: What my late wife taught me about football
I first met my wife when we were teenagers, and she was protesting the half-day we'd been given off school to watch Carlisle United. I first heard about my wife in 1951 when she was 13 and I was 15....
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Leader: The case against Mr Johnson
As much as Mr Johnson might wish otherwise, this referendum is about more than him. It is a dismal paradox that Boris Johnson’s decision to support the campaign to leave the European Union...
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This is the end of the line: a dispatch from Ukipland
Jaywick Sands, the most deprived ward in the whole of England, reveals Ukip’s uneasy relationship with working class voters. One of the first things you see as you step out of the train station in...
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Adding Boris Johnson to the Leave team merely upgrades Brexit’s chances from...
Pro-Europe campaigners are understandably worried that Johnson has come out for the other side. But events, not individuals, remain the biggest threat to Britain’s membership of the EU. February 2015....
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Is it time to scrap the Oscars?
The Academy Awards are blighted by racism and bad decisions. So what would a world without them look like? The most striking scene in the new Oscar-nominated film Trumbo shows two screenwriters facing...
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The government needs to get a grip on childcare
A promise, delivered in haste, is falling apart, says Jenny Chapman. Childcare is really important for our future economic success and for ensuring a level playing field for all children before they...
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Commons confidential: Swivel-eyed Gove
Why Gove's euroscepticism takes us back to the future. Plus: Zac Goldsmith, Labour plotters and Baroness Stowell's iron fist.Michael Gove’s coming out is back to the future for the Europhobe. I was...
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On stage, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing becomes fully formed
Adaptations are often lamented for not living up to their source material, but the Young Vic production of Eimear McBride's novel brilliantly bucks the trend. Adapted novels, the lifeblood of...
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Sacha Baron Cohen’s Grimsby feels amateurish – and it despises its own audience
What makes Grimsby an especially steep falling-off after Baron Cohen’s last three movies is the sense that no one really cared whether it came off or not; the whole enterprise has a “will-this-do?”...
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Whatever happens in the referendum, there's no going back
The questions raised by the claims about the legal backing to the deal won't go away, says Emran Mian. It is widely reported that Michael Gove, the Justice Secretary, will be banned from seeing...
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Is Donald Trump inevitable?
Even if Marco Rubio can stop him, his victory may end up feeling hollow. Donald Trump won Nevada’s woefully mismanaged caucus (“the entire place was in chaos”, said a Republican party official),...
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Why are so many British actors privately-educated?
The class hierarchy in acting doesn’t exist in a vacuum: it’s reflective of the rigged opportunities shutting the working class out of most positions of status and wealth in this country. I’m a firm...
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It's hard to meditate on the details of The People v O J Simpson once you see...
Even when the series is gripping, I keep being distracted by Travolta's weirdly unmoving face. Plus: The Night Manager. The BBC has adapted John le Carré’s 1993 novel, The Night Manager (Sundays,...
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The BBC has never been a natural home for Eurosceptics – just ask the young...
When it comes to the EU referendum, I don't believe there's systematic bias in the BBC - but neutrality will still require journalists to be empathetic. The BBC is on a war footing. As soon as the...
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