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How House of Cards made me a bad person
As I sink into the most recent series, I can feel the increasing pressure to manipulate/scheme/rise to my natural place in the White House again. I first encountered House of Cards in an...
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Want to see your neighbourhood in a new light? Move around the corner
Inhabiting any new locale involves adopting new perspectives, and relocating a few hundred metres up the road makes the adjustment particularly uncanny. Some psychogeographer or other has stencilled a...
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Why “Help to Save” won't help at all
The Chancellor's latest gimmick is just that. Having trailed its appearance in a speech in January, the government has this morning announced details of its Help to Save scheme. Aiming to help those...
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What I learned when I visited a refugee camp in Greece
Unless Europe’s leaders summon the political will to act on behalf of the voiceless and vulnerable this untold suffering will only get worse, and I fear that Greece, perpetually teetering on the brink...
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The most important election in the next five years isn't in the country. It's...
Who runs Labour's largest affiliate will be a deciding factor in the party's future. The biggest story in Labour politics last week wasn't John McDonnell's speech on the economy - but the news that...
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This referendum isn't just David Cameron's legacy. It's Tony Blair's, too
The New Labour governments' quiet pro-Europeanism left the battlefield vacated for two decades. After two weeks of campaigning, you could be forgiven for thinking that the EU referendum is an...
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The new books exploring masculinity and family life
I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son and The Seven Good Years may two more books by middle-class, middle-aged men, but the journeys they undertake are profound. If these were books by Brits,...
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Do Not Disturb: how London’s top hotels get away with exploiting their hotel...
Behind the closed doors of five-star hotels throughout the capital, staff face sexual harassment, bullying, and employment abuses.*/ “It’s like a jail.” This is an unlikely description of one of...
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Demolishing purgatory: what happens to the refugees when Calais’s “Jungle” is...
We meet evicted inhabitants of Europe’s largest slum, which is being bulldozed by the French authorities. It’s as if a natural disaster has swept through one seven-hectare portion of northern France....
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"What if?" history books normally annoy me - but History's People is an...
Margaret MacMillan’s selection of neglected voices in History’s People reminds us how individual choices and actions come to shape our world. Counterfactual history – also known as “What if?” history...
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Could an uncanny crowd of Theresa Mays make the public care about the...
Using magnifying glasses, they peered at the phones of passerby. On Sunday, a crowd of protesters wearing identical masks of Theresa May's face lurked outside parliament. They held magnifying glasses...
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Labour is turning into the nasty party
It's not too late to turn back. She wore black to give the speech, I recall. Funereal, I believe the phrase was. Fitting, because in 2002, to be Tory party chairman must have felt rather like...
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Period positivity and pride could undermine treating women’s bodies as the norm
There must be a middle ground between finding menstruation disgusting and finding it self-defining, politically impressive or worth spending half your salary on. It’s just a period. It’s normal.“The...
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Gibraltar and Europe: caught in the slipstream?
The British papers are full of who has the lead in the European in or out campaigns – Guy Clapperton considers the fallout for the smaller territories Let’s start by acknowledging that there is no...
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If we leave Europe, the price will be paid by the poor
Out of Europe, the divide between the have-nots and the have-yachts would only get wider. Once the dust has settled on tomorrow’s Budget fanfare, it will be for the eagle-eyed to go through George...
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Exclusive: John McDonnell named Lenin and Trotsky as his biggest influences...
How the Soviet revolutionaries shaped the shadow chancellor's political and economic beliefs. On 13 September 2015, for the first time in British history, a Marxist entered the office of shadow...
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The deafening dogwhistle of Zac Goldsmith’s London mayoral campaign leaflets
Leaflets show the Tory mayor candidate’s interesting attitude towards ethnic minority voters. Zac Goldsmith, the Tories’ London mayoral candidate, has offended voters with some campaign literature...
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Don't let Iraq's Kurds be erased from the conversation about the Middle East
Elements on left and right want to forget the Kurds and their plight. The month of March marks the most traumatic moments of the past, present and future of the Kurds in Iraq. It starts on 5 March...
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SRSLY #35: The Night Manager, Alice Isn’t Dead, Benny & Joon
On the pop culture podcast this week, we chat fictional podcast serial Alice Isn't Dead, BBC thriller The Night Manager, and 1993 romcom Benny & Joon.*/ This is SRSLY, the pop culture podcast from...
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Why renting in London is like living in perpetual unrequited love with a...
You make it so hard for me to love you, London.“Rent control,” says a friend, explaining how she can afford to live somewhere nice (nice, can you imagine?) in Vienna.“Uhhhhhh, rent control,” I repeat...
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