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Why indie fans of the 2000s were intolerable
Men inexplicably wore hats and women thought they fancied that guy from The Kooks. It was a dark time. In my early twenties, I came to probably the most important realisation of my entire life. It...
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Everything Bernie Sanders doesn’t know about his own policies
During an interview, the Democratic presidential candidates struggled to explain how he’d implement his policies. The limits of Bernie Sanders’ understanding of his own policies have been revealed in...
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Peter Moffat's gripping new drama tackles the question of undercover policing
Undercover is a pleasingly intriguing addition to the BBC's line-up. Plus: Workers or Shirkers? reviewed. I seemed not to have much of an appetite for the excessively trailed Undercover (Sundays, 9pm),...
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The band as brand: the Rolling Stones at the Saatchi Gallery
Exhibitionism: the Rolling Stones is upfront about one of the Stones' biggest innovations: the way they sold themselves. At one point in the late Eighties, Keith Richards started getting strange phone...
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Don't write Zac Goldsmith off just yet
Although the man himself appears uninterested in securing the top prize, it could still be his. In a recent interview with the BBC, the only question about London that Zac Goldsmith was able to...
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Salman Rushdie: how Cervantes and Shakespeare wrote the modern literary rule...
It is 400 years since Shakespeare and Cervantes died. Together, they defy boundaries of time, and the conventions that keep street life seperate from fantasy. As we honour the four hundredth...
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David Cameron admits: I had shares in offshore fund
The Prime Minister has admitted that he and his wife had shares in Panama-registered fund Blairmore. David Cameron has admitted that he and his wife, Samantha Cameron, had shares in his father's...
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When to take a leak, abuse in Ambridge, and Ian McEwan’s identity supermarket
First thoughts on Cameron and the Panama Papers, Caitlyn Jenner, and The Archers. A few months ago, I wrote a piece for Nieman Reports, Harvard’s journalism magazine, about the ethics of working with...
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How significant are David Cameron's offshore shares?
Six thoughts on the Prime Minister's admission he held shares in his father's fund. This is undoubtedly deeply embarrassing for Cameron… The Prime Minister’s admission yesterday evening that he had...
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The haunted Albania of Ismail Kadare’s A Girl in Exile
Kadare's story of a detective in a dictatorship is a ghost story twice over.A Girl in Exile, the newly translated novel by the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare, is a ghostly book, in a double sense. It...
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We've had enough words from the government on tax evasion. Now we need action
The government has talked big and done little to curb evasion. A new approach is needed, says Dan Jarvis. Not only are there questions about the morality of David Cameron’s use of offshore financial...
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Diane Abbott is wrong about TTIP
The UK's longest-serving MEP responds to the Shadow International Development Secretary.This article is a response to Diane Abbott's blog on Monday about TTIP. Read her piece here. Trade deals are...
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From a Tudor queen in Bromley to “Game of Gnomes”: a week in history
Plus: welcome to the world of 17th-century feminist sci-fi. The 70 girls were laughing like hyenas. Five of them were with me on the stage of the school hall, where they had just finished tugging and...
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What is chemsex? And how worried should we be?
Men using specific drugs to have sex with other men is on the rise, and there is evidence it's taking a toll on the gay community. What is chemsex? Strictly speaking, chemsex refers to gay or...
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Private landlords don't need more regulation
You can have all the regulations you like, but they are pointless without proper enforcement. Standards in the private rented sector are more to do with the political will to enforce rather than the...
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Why Turkey's president fears a Kurdish rebellion from the east
President Erdogan sees the Kurdish east in terms of a rebellion Ottoman province. For the first time in months, you can walk freely across Seyh Said Meydani, a city square on the edge of the historic...
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Watch: Scottish Liberal Democrat upstaged by a randy pig
Never work with children or animals. Never work with children or animals. That's certainly something the Mole's colleagues say with depressing frequency, but no-one told Willie Rennie, who, while...
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Even celebrity women have to live in patriarchy
They, too, compromising to survive, and working within a system whose rules they did not choose. I am often asked what I think of “celebrity feminism”. Specifically, when I talk to young people, I’m...
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It's not Panama that's hurting David Cameron. It's his pro-Europeanism
David Cameron's falling approval ratings are bad news for the campaign to keep Britain in the European Union. David Cameron’s difficult week just got a little bit worse, as a YouGov poll showed his...
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Amoris Laetitia: papal document on love and the family goes easy on...
Despite inclusive language, the document also maintains the church's stance on gay marriage. At midday today, Pope Francis released Amoris Laetitia, a document containing recent Catholic Church...
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