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The tall and short of it: does size matter for men in Hollywood?
If our societal biases are usually reflected on the big screen, does Hollywood suffer from heightism? This month, a study was released on how height and weight affect our pay brackets. On top of the...
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The growing politicisation of Indian cricket
The tournament has played out against a backdrop of Indian nationalism, on the ascent since the BJP, a party with a strong Hindu nationalist tinge, won their first general election. The roads to the...
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What the workers at one closing factory taught me about Donald Trump and...
The Carrier furnace plant has been a staple of Donald Trump’s stump speech for nearly two months. There are few better cures for a feeling of optimism about the US economy than stepping into the Hot...
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America’s fascist justice system - and the virtues of Donald Trump?
Most Americans are as offended by Donald Trump as most civilised foreigners are. But few foreigners are aware of the anger and fear of his supporters. Most Americans are as offended by the stylistic...
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At the Independent leaving do, some ex-editors were looking surprisingly...
The Indie’s cheerful mourners, teachers’ colour pens, and why the Tories will spoil your dinner. Only current staff and former editors of the daily and Sunday papers were invited to the Independent’s...
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The government must act quickly to stop other industries going the same way...
Tata is just the canary in the coal mine. Wednesday’s announcement that India’s Tata Steel plans to "explore all options for re-structuring" its European operations makes it likely the company will...
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Steel's not a sunset industry - it's the linchpin of our economy
There is a strategic and economic imperative to back British steel. The British government has been in a state of denial about the steel crisis, ever since David Cameron moved into Downing Street....
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For refugee women in Germany, solidarity is non-negotiable
These women are trying to eke out an existance in the no-man's land between the Islamists and far right groups. Acts of compassion - and translation - matter. By now, everyone has an opinion on...
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Six months in, Jeremy Corbyn is already one of history's great opposition...
Liam Young looks back at Jeremy Corbyn's first six months in post. For all the talk of a lack of opposition to this Tory Government Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour has achieved more than your average...
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Kezia Dugdale warns Brexit could lead to the break-up of the United Kingdom
Scottish Labour's leader also talked about her private life for the first time in an interview with Fabian Review. Kezia Dugdale, the leader of Scottish Labour, has said it is “not inconceivable”...
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From anti-Americanism to European soft power: the geopolitics of Tintin
What's fascinating, when reading Hergé's series today, is how clearly its values evolve in line with a changing world. Who would have thought that Tintin would so easily become a social media star?...
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After the Brussels attacks, these are the lessons Belgium will not learn
Why was the Metro not shut down, and travellers evacuated, after the airport bombs? This is the sort of question the Belgium political class must face. My favourite set of guidebooks to Brussels and...
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Why Sooyong Park went in search of the Siberian Tiger - and what he found
At the heart of The Great Soul of Siberia is not a fear of snapping jaws, but of a broader, deeper terror: that of extinction. There is more than one way to lose yourself in a forest. Keeping still –...
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Two poems: "Corvids" and "Starlings"
New poetry from John Kinsella.Corvids Up the church’s steps The hooded birds boldly hop Towards salvation. Starlings In the eaves – cats brawling below – beaks knotted with grubs; the clouds vanished...
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Is there something peculiarly British about Asbo-worthy behaviour in the...
All the world’s a stage . . . and many are the fidgets entertaining themselves round it. Theatre audiences were historically none too well mannered. At the Globe in Shakespeare’s day, the...
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Here’s why nothing – and no one – can stop me running up and down escalators
It’s official: standing on busy escalators is faster than walking up (or down) them. Yes, it’s official: standing on busy escalators is faster than walking up (or down) them. Research undertaken by my...
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Thomas Piketty and Yanis Varoufakis on debt, democracy and the Eurozone
Simon Wren-Lewis reviews new books from the two "rock star" economists.“Economist” and “celebrity” are not words usually spoken together, but both of these authors have been called rock stars. Thomas...
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Part human, part virus - what do we really know about DNA?
For all our progress, the mechanisms of life remain stubbornly elusive. Biology continues to surprise us at every turn. In the past half-century, human beings have explored the whole of our solar...
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In every beach bar on the planet, there’s a lone man watching the Prem
In the four different places I stayed, on Saturdays and Sundays, I was able to walk to a sports bar and watch a live game, any live Prem game of my choice. One of the things that the Prem is always...
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Sake: a spirit made from the spit of ancient virgins
Around the solid centre of the rice kernel, mystery builds. Wine buffs praise its “body” and Catholics revere it as blood; still, nobody has yet credited wine with a heart. That honour belongs to...
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