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England is now a more expensive place to study than the US. Why?
Is a university education in this country really worth £44,000, and how does our system compare to higher education funding elsewhere? England has long sneered at American universities and their...
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Commons Confidential: When Corbyn met Obama
The Labour leader chatted socialism with the leader of the free world. Child labour isn’t often a subject for small talk, and yet it proved an ice-breaker when Jeremy Corbyn met Barack Obama. The...
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The Pill pushback
The contraceptive pill helped liberate women when it arrived in the UK in the 1960s. Now, spurred by experiences shared online and a spate of new fertility apps, many are turning their backs on it....
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The next mayor must tackle what’s making London miserable for too many
London in 2016 risks losing much of what makes it such a diverse, vital and multi-layered place to the sterilising forces of polarised wealth and misguided policy. Since Londoners last went to the...
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Notes from a small island: the fraught and colourful history of Sicily
Sicily: Culture and Conquest at the British Museum. When a gun was fired a hundred metres or so from the Sicilian piazza where we were eating, my reaction was to freeze, fall to my knees, and then run...
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Why Game of Thrones is the perfect show for the modern age
There is something horribly relatable about George R R Martin’s world of Westeros, whose characters have now become part of public myth. By now, it feels as if George R R Martin – the author of Game of...
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It harms women more than men when dads doing parenting are seen as “babysitters”
In the grand scheme of things, being seen as a mere babysitter is less dehumanising than being seen as a mere woman.“Dads don’t babysit (it’s called ‘parenting’).” So says the T-shirt created by Al...
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Oxbridge’s diversity failure is so severe it’s time to ask if it’s wilful
If Oxford and Cambridge are to become the diverse institutions they claim to want to be, they must address the systemic problems inherit in their admissions systems.“We’re not the best”. It’s the open...
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Labour MPs believe Jeremy Corbyn is incapable of tackling anti-Semitism
The leader's insistence that "there's no crisis" has led more to conclude that he must be removed. In a competitive field, yesterday was the most surreal - and shameful - day for Labour since Jeremy...
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To preserve the environment we hold in common, everyone has to play their part
The challenge of building a clean future based on the common good of Londoners demands that politicians, business, communities and individuals each take a share of the responsibility and of the...
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Our trade unions are doing more for women than ever before
You don’t have to look far to find examples of unions not just “noisily fighting for”, but actually winning better pay, terms and conditions for women. Reading Carole Easton’s article on women and...
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What it’s like to fall victim to the Mail Online’s aggregation machine
I recently travelled to Iraq at my own expense to write a piece about war graves. Within five hours of the story's publication by the Times, huge chunks of it appeared on Mail Online – under someone...
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Is our obsession with class propping up the powerful?
Lynsey Hanley’s memoir Respectable: the Experience of Class attacks the sharp-elbowed bourgeoisie – but society will only be transformed by building coalitions between the middle and working classes....
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Baby you’re a rich man: the impossible madness of Paul McCartney’s life
“I was on the scrapheap,” the Beatles bassist had thought, aged 27, when the band split up. How wrong he was. Hard though it is to grasp the full extent of Paul McCartney’s wealth, this book showers...
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How science and statistics are taking over sport
An ongoing challenge for analysts is to disentangle genuine skill from chance events. Some measurements are more useful than others. In the mid-1990s, statistics undergraduates at Lancaster University...
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Jeremy Corbyn appoints Shami Chakrabarti to lead inquiry into Labour and...
“Labour is an anti-racist party to its core," says leader.Jeremy Corbyn has announced plans for an independent inquiry into antisemitism in the Labour party.The review – led by Shami Chakrabarti, the...
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Inside Big Ben: why the world’s most famous clock will soon lose its bong
Every now and then, even the most famous of clocks need a bit of care. London is soon going to lose one of its most familiar sounds when the world-famous Big Ben falls silent for repairs. The...
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A glossary of football’s most hackneyed phrases – and what they mean
This is the time of the season when we all get tired. Time to break out the cliches. This is the time of the season when we all get tired. The players, poor petals, are exhausted. The refs have had...
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Notes from a crime scene: what Seymour Hersh knows
Xan Rice meets the tireless Seymour Hersh to talk My Lai, pricey coffee and Bin Laden. It’s late on a lazy Wednesday afternoon when Seymour Hersh comes bounding down the stairs. “Let’s find somewhere...
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How Donald Trump is slouching towards the Republican nomination
There was supposed to be a ceiling above which Trump’s popular support could not climb. In America, you can judge a crowd by its merchandise. Outside the Connecticut Convention Centre in Hartford,...
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