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We went to see the musical about Jeremy Corbyn so you don’t have to
Deputy web editor Anoosh Chakelian and special correspondent Stephen Bush give us their verdict on Corbyn the Musical: The Motorcycle Diaries.AC: “Corbyn the Musical began as a joke, and has hopefully...
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The multibillion dollar question
Simon Briskman and Kirstene Baillie, partners at the legal firm Fieldfisher, examine establishing a growth platform for fintech The UK is Europe’s leading financial technology (fintech) centre....
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The international community must act to prevent famine in Somaliland
With more support and funding, the resilient people of Somaliland can not only stave off famine but also invest in what is needed in the longer term. Last week I was in Somaliland in the Horn of...
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Teach yourself Dwarvish: behind Tolkien’s invented languages
From sound aesthetic to Finnegans Wake, a new book explores Tolkien's relationship to language. Horsemen, barbaric yet noble, chant battle cries. Ridge-browed aliens do the same. Their words are...
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Sex spreadsheets and thumb kisses: inside the world of couple apps
App designers have conquered dating, and have moved onto the world of coupledom. Technology, depending on your point of view, has “transformed” or “ruined” dating. But now, it looks like a new...
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Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts is moving in every sense of the word
This American memoir is a portrait not only of marriage and motherhood, but of gender identity in flux. What’s in a word? “I love you,” the French theorist Roland Barthes said, is a phrase that...
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Watch: Scottish Lib Dems launch their manifesto – in a soft play area
#LibDemFightback. The only fate worse than being a Liberal Democrat in 2016 is being a Scottish Liberal Democrat. Which means the job of Willie Rennie, the leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats,...
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More people than ever use food banks in Britain today - and I'm one of them
As the Trussell Trust reveals that food bank usage is at record levels, one user writes about her experiences. Today I read that food bank figures are the highest they’ve ever been, and I feel...
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Labour's task in May: move forwards
Performance in local elections is an enormously powerful indicator – perhaps one of the most powerful signals – of the next General Election’s actual result. Early May’s huge electoral tests are now...
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Take me back to where De Quincey met his hero - and I tried to shake off the...
If the past is another country, it’s one the boundaries of which are ever shifting, as entire features dissolve in the blue haze of partial amnesia. In August 1807, Thomas De Quincey, the fanboy of...
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The environmental case for EU membership
From air pollution to climate change, the big environmental challenges faced by Britain in the 21st century are best tackled inside the EU. Yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn set out Labour’s progressive and...
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What would society look like with universal basic income?
It may seem blasphemous to neoliberals, but a universal basic wage may be the only choice we have. What would you do if somebody gave you a few hundred pounds each month to spend on whatever you...
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The Remain campaign needs more than passion and commitment
The prize in this referendum, as in most elections, is the legion of the disinterested and half-engaged - normal people. It is fast becoming an iron law of modern politics that any successful...
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The Brexiters are foolish to pick a fight with Barack Obama
The US president is a popular and trusted figure in the UK. Opponents of his EU stance should behave with dignity. In advance of his visit to the UK next week, the Brexiters have a new target in their...
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Chernobyl and the ghosts of a nuclear past
A Nobel laureate captures the beginning of the “age of disasters”.“This is not a book on Chernobyl,” writes Svetlana Alexievich, “but on the world of Chernobyl.” It is not about what happened on 26...
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“The Diamond Pane”: a poem by Kathleen Jamie
"I, my mother’s daughter, / took up a pen, hard-nibbed / and therefore equal / to the task. . ."*/ In my “eyrie of freedom”, that house of the mind, high above a small Fife town of fisherfolk and...
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For a man who supposedly cannot win, Bernie Sanders is doing pretty nicely
Sanders has shown that you can make a serious run for the presidency without corporate cash. For a man who supposedly cannot win, Bernie Sanders is doing pretty nicely. Even his opponents in the...
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On location
London is impossibly expensive for some investors – so where else should they look, asks Kate Chapman of AB Property Marketing It is a telling time for the UK property market. Headlines speak of...
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Stephen Fry's objections to trigger warnings aren't acceptable - but they are...
For those of Fry's age and background, there is something terribly uncomfortable about the new insistence on self-expression. Stephen Fry, like many of his generation of progressives, seems to be...
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How a 2010 air crash is still dividing Poland
The conspiracy theories around the Smolensk crash continue to unsettle Polish politics six years' later. A national tragedy is thought to bring a country together, but in Poland the opposite is true....
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