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Last week the Eurosceptics finally lost the plot
It's the Trumpisation of politics, where prejudice is patriotism and knowledge is dangerous. Was it the Treasury analysis? The Bank of England Governor's warning? Or is it the ex-US Treasury...
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The left-wing firebrands who turned to the right
Daniel Oppenheimer's Exit Right: the People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century examines the apostates who crossed the political divide. Writing about Whittaker Chambers, who, from...
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There is radical potential in revitalising adult education – why are we...
We need a dynamic education system to meet the challenges of an ever-changing labour market. According to government figures released in early April, the number of adult learners dropped by 10.8 per...
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How the hunt for black holes causes a rift in physics
Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space shows how rivalries developed during the fraught search for gravitational revenge. More than a billion years ago, gravity pulled two black holes...
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It's time to rid the world of malaria for good
We have witnessed staggering progress over the past 15 years, with deaths reduced by more than 60 per cent saving 6.2 million lives. The world has bold ambitions when it comes to malaria, and rightly...
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To combat Islamic State, the world's leaders need to restore order to Libya
US intelligence estimates indicate the number of IS fighters in Libya has probably doubled to between 4,000 and 6,000 in the last 12-18 months. Barack Obama, David Cameron, Angela Merkel, Francois...
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Would you float off the treadmill? How to run a marathon in space
Astronaut Tim Peake ran the London Marathon aboard the International Space Station. Here's how he did it. Around 36,000 people ran a marathon through London’s streets yesterday. But a lone figure,...
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The government's academy angst has united local government leaders in opposition
The truth of Cameron’s Conservatism is a distrust of local democracy, a disdain for frontline public sector workers and a preference for centralised power with Whitehall puppeteers. It takes a lot to...
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In Annie Baker’s The Flick, we watch people watching movies
The Flick deals at length with the way people make connections with each other through external cultural phenomena. Hilton Als’s White Girls begins with a man sitting “on the promontory in our village,...
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The Leave campaign will struggle to win by playing the immigration card
For most voters, the economy trumps migration as the defining issue. If you're losing an argument, change the subject. After being thrashed last week on economic territory (by a grand coalition of...
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You Asked Us: What would be a good night for Jeremy Corbyn in the local...
Don't fetishise the number of gains - look at where those gains are. What would be a good night for Jeremy Corbyn in the local elections? It’s the question that I get asked more often than any other...
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The left is in denial about patriotism
Until we define patriotism by the institutions that make us proud, the right will always own the flag. There is a common charge against leftists that they fail to engage with patriotism, and until they...
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John Whittingdale’s women, how Seumas Milne got his big break and maddening...
When the press finds a story about a politician’s sex life, the usual practice is to strain every sinew to establish a public-interest justification to publish. . . When the newspapers find a...
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Piers Corbyn interview: Soviets in Shropshire, termite wars, and Jeremy...
The weather forecaster and climate change denier on life as the Labour leader’s controversial older brother. Piers Corbyn is an hour late. But when he finally shambles into the placid garden of a café...
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Dilma Rousseff's rotten politics
Impeachment and lies in South America. There’s less than four months to go before the Olympic opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro, but in Brazil, the Games have become a minor talking point. On 17...
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The child refugee vote brought shame on the government
It’s pretty hard to look away from the simple truth that the Government simply doesn’t care about these children. Yesterday was a day of judgement for 3,000 desperate children. 3,000 children who are...
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Fade to white: Philip Hensher’s short stories emphasise the freedom of his...
As a fiction writer, Hensher has virtuosity on tap, so every page delivers something enjoyable and even eye-popping. At one point in his introduction to the two-volume Penguin Book of the British Short...
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Why Beyoncé’s Lemonade is the most exciting film of 2016 so far
In a climate of seemingly endless remakes and sequels, an original film as pointedly personal and raw as this one feels like a small miracle.*/ On 23 April Beyoncé was to screen a 65-minute something...
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Junior doctors’ strike: as a doctor, I was fighting to save the NHS – then...
A GP who was diagnosed with blood cancer on his personal crusade against the Conservatives’ attack on the health service and junior doctors. This week sees a decisive escalation of industrial action...
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Hillsborough inquest finds 96 fans were unlawfully killed in 1989 disaster
The families of the victims are vindicated after a 27-year campaign.*/ The 96 Liverpool fans who died in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster were unlawfully killed, an inquest jury has concluded. Those who...
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