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Doing a Radiohead: how to disappear online
The band has performed an online Houdini in advance of its ninth album – but it’s harder than it looks. At the beginning of May, the band Radiohead’s web presence – well, its Twitter, Facebook, and...
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How should Labour's disgruntled moderates behave?
The price for loyalty looks like being long-term opposition. Sometimes exiting can be brave. When Albert O. Hirschman was writing Exit, Voice, Loyalty: Responses to decline in Firms, Organizations,...
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My quest for an elusive can of juicy Fray Bentos steak and kidney pie ends...
In Tesco, I was struck by the presence of a paella ready-meal in the chiller cabinet. The last time I addressed you from my bully-beef pulpit I was going to write about my all-consuming yen for a Fray...
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UK equities: A logical proposition
It is one thing to be cautious about the prospects for the UK market – but quite another to be bearish about every stock listed in the UK. To modern minds, the notion that something true for the whole...
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That’s no moth, it’s a wisp of delight on the wing
In recent years, some of the most beautiful moths have either died out here or are now only rare summer visitors. Many years ago, I was a volunteer moth-hunter. I wasn’t a collector (I’ve always been...
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“I was nothing more than a tick-box exercise”: Ex-Tory candidate Shazia Awan...
The former Conservative candidate for Leigh reveals how, as a woman from an ethnic minority background, she was singled out and made to feel unwelcome in the party. I remember the exact moment that...
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Zac Goldsmith is running a patronising and poisonous campaign
When he's not pretending to love Bollywood, he's blowing on the dog whistle, says Seema Malhotra. Here’s some movie recommendations for Zac Goldsmith: Fan, Kapoor & Sons, Rocky Handsome. These...
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Do voters really want anti-austerity policies? Kezia Dugdale is about to find...
The Scottish Labour leader goes into the Holyrood elections pledging a penny on income tax, and to restore the 50p tax rate. Conventional wisdom says that's electoral suicide. In August last year, I...
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Donald Trump is the Republican nominee. What now?
So a Clinton-Trump general election is assured – a historically unpopular match-up based on their current favourability ratings. That’s it. Ted Cruz bowed out of the Republican presidential race last...
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The English left must fall out of love with the SNP
There is a distinction between genuine leftism and empty anti-establishmentarianism. After a kerfuffle on Twitter the other night, I am all too aware that writing something even mildly questioning of...
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Will they, won't they: Freya’s ambivalent relationship with plot
Like the heroine, the narrative feels becalmed and slightly wrong-footed in Anthony Quinn’s Freya.Freya is a portrait of a young woman in her time (post-Second World War through to the 1950s), place...
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PMQs review: Jeremy Corbyn is punished for his “friends” Hamas
In the face of David Cameron's unrelenting assault, the Labour leader still refused to withdraw his remark. When Jeremy Corbyn referred to Hamas and Hizbullah as "our friends" he certainly didn't...
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In this week's magazine | The longest hatred
A first look at this week's issue.6 - 12 May issueThe longest hatred Cover story: The longest hatred. Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman: Why anti-Semitism in Europe today is a threat to us all.Howard...
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Low turnout may not be enough to save Zac Goldsmith
Demographic patterns in mayoral elections do not replicate those at general elections. It is a truism in politics to say that older people vote. Almost exactly a year ago - the day before the general...
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Miners against coal: the pit where former Welsh miners are protesting...
The Merthyr Tydfil miners’ long history of struggle is spurring them on to a whole new form of action. The retired miners and factory workers at the working men's club in the Welsh town of Merthyr...
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Nanoengine evolution: researchers have built the world’s smallest machine
The engine could form the basis of futuristic tiny robots with real-world applications. Richard P Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, once remarked in a now-seminal lecture that a...
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Where are the moderate Tories condemning Zac Goldsmith’s campaign?
Conservative MPs are reluctant to criticise the London mayoral candidate’s dogwhistle rhetoric. Very few Conservative politicians have criticised Zac Goldsmith’s campaign to be elected London mayor....
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As long as Jeremy Corbyn's Labour opponents are divided, he will rule
The leader's foes have yet to agree on when and how a challenge should take place. Labour MPs began plotting to remove Jeremy Corbyn as leader before he even held the position. They have not stopped...
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Is TTIP a threat or an opportunity?
TTIP offers potentially huge opportunities to both Europe and the US - we should keep an open mind on what the final agreement will mean. Barack Obama made it abundantly clear during his visit to the...
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Leader: A test for Mr Corbyn
“We are not going to lose seats. We are looking to gain seats where we can,” Corbyn insisted on 3 May. For Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters, his ascent to the Labour leadership eight months ago was about...
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