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Who’s more terrifying: Donald Trump or Ted Cruz?
Cruz threatens liberalism but Trump threatens democracy. Mitt Romney, once a Massachusetts moderate, was mocked four years ago for describing himself as “severely conservative”. Romney was undoubtedly...
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EU campaigners should stop talking about process
The problem with the John Longworth row is that nobody cares. Have you heard about John Longworth? On the Clapham omnibus they speak of little else. Longworth was, until Sunday, the director-general...
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The climates, they are a-changing
At the end of last year the COP21 climate conference happened in Paris - Prof Daniella Tilbury, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Gibraltar, was there. As I watched the French foreign minister, and...
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Why David Astor was one of the twentieth century’s greatest – and bravest –...
Jeremy Lewis’s biography reveals the life of the man who made the Observer unique. When I joined the Observer as a 23-year-old graduate reporter in 1968, it was seemingly staffed by ageing eccentrics...
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You know something’s up with the left when your friends are calling Peter...
What the hell has happened to my friend ——’s brains, and heart, that she can put her name to a screed that implies he is a wicked bigot? I’m in the upstairs attic study of my old home. I’m not looking...
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“Home Secretary, you are a woman too”: protesters call on Theresa May to free...
Women demonstrate outside the Home Office in solidarity with refugee women who come to the UK.“SET HER FREE” is the chant that has been ricocheting off the glass and steel of the Home Office all...
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I, like all junior doctors, may have to walk out on the NHS
If contract imposition goes ahead, can I in clear conscience accept my next training post in August? I’m afraid my answer may have to be no; and I suspect I won’t be the only one. Like many other...
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SRSLY #34: The 1975, The People v OJ Simpson and Date Night
On the pop culture podcast: The 1975's second album, I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It, the true-story drama The People v OJ Simpson and Tina Fey/Steve Carell...
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A modest proposal for making the sex industry safer – make punters get a licence
We still aren’t talking enough about what supposedly civilised men actually do to women in prostitution.“Civilisation” is a rum concept. For much of history it’s been defined with women on the outside:...
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Getting more women into ministerial jobs is not that hard – here's how to do it
It's simply a matter of will. Women are still underrepresented in political institutions across the globe. A lot of time has been spent looking at how to increase the share of women in parliaments...
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From Catholics to the Queen: the changing face of Euroscepticism
A short history of some of the oddest arguments against the European Union. Make Britain great again! Even the Queen has doubts about the European Union – if you believe the Queen, that is. But...
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Twitter is 10. Where were other social networks after a decade?
Sold, relaunched, died; sold, relaunched, survived. Twitter, for all its sins, has made it to 10. A whole decade. Which, given that the world wide web itself is only around a quarter of a century...
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The Returning Officer: Hemel Hempstead II
This seat was the first to have had a woman candidate from all three major parties. Margaret Irene Corbett Ashby was the Liberal candidate in 1935 and the 1937 by-election, making this seat the first...
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Know Nothings and Fire Eaters: why Donald Trump is a man of the 1850s
American populism is nothing new – Donald Trump could be reading from a script prepared in 1854. Sweeping all before him, Donald Trump seems like a phenomenon entirely of our time. With his...
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Gored: the story of Antonio Barrera, the most gored bullfighter in modern...
Whatever your views on bullfighting, there is no denying that Antonio Barrera is a captivating subject for a documentary. In his fifteen year career as a professional matador, Spaniard Antonio Barrera...
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How Natalie Bennett saved Labour’s bacon
A new report shows that the 2015 defeat could have been even worse for the party. Natalie Bennett’s leadership of the Green party cost the party dearly in the run-up to the 2015 general election, a...
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Trousers for All: why are girls still being required to wear skirts to school?
The far more revolutionary campaign, of course, would be one that wanted boys to be allowed to wear skirts, too. Who wears the trousers in your relationship? In my case, it’s definitely my partner....
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In this week's magazine | American Psycho
A first look at this week's issue.11 - 17 March 2016 issueAmerican Psycho Cover story: American Psycho. Simon Heffer on the remarkable rise of Donald Trump and the decay of a great nation. The NS...
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Google’s Go triumph is a milestone for artificial intelligence research
There are more possibilities in a game of Go than we would get by considering a separate chess game played on every atom in the universe. A computer designed by researchers from Google DeepMind has...
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PMQs review: Jeremy Corbyn needs to ditch his scattergun approach
The Labour leader's unfocused questioning allowed David Cameron to walk away unharmed. When an opponent deploys every weapon in their arsenal it is typically a sign of weakness. So it was with Jeremy...
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