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Turkey's turmoil should worry David Cameron
Splits in the Turkish government could play into the Brexiteers' hands. While Britain focused on Sadiq v Zac and Cameron v Corbyn, in Turkey an even more dramatic contest was coming to a head. For...
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Scottish Labour's defeat to the Tories confirms a political transformation
The defining divide is no longer between left and right but between unionist and nationalist. It was Scotland where Labour's recovery was supposed to begin. Jeremy Corbyn's allies predicted that his...
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The Dolittle delusion: what motivates human beings to live like animals?
Wearing a custom-built goat exoskeleton, sucking down worms like a badger – two new books describe extreme adventures in becoming beasts. The English-speaking world has long had a love affair with...
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Boaty McBoatface is no more, and other stories on this good day to bury bad news
Your mole looks into the stories the government would rather you let sail by... Win, lose or draw, today was set to be a healthy day for British democracy. Until this: Boaty McBoatface is no more. Oh...
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Why haven't we heard more about the allegations of Tory election fraud?
Police and prosecutors have joined a probe into election fraud allegations that could erase the Tory majority. The facts The Conservative Party is facing accusations of breaking election spending...
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Ken Livingstone blamed for Labour losses in Jewish areas
Did Labour’s antisemitism scandal put Jewish voters off? A Labour councillor in Manchester has directly attributed his party’s local slump to the antisemitism scandal that saw Ken Livingstone...
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Jeremy Corbyn has defied the odds and embarrassed his critics
The pundits were wrong, writes Liam Young. On Tuesday I said that Labour would need time to show any drastic improvement in nation-wide elections. With the results now clear I still hold to that...
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When Sadiq Khan becomes London's new mayor, what will happen in the Tooting...
There will be a by-election in the new mayor's south London seat. At the time of writing, Sadiq Khan appears to have a fairly comfortable lead over Zac Goldsmith in the London mayoral election. Which...
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How I saw 12 Shakespeare plays in seven days
From a Dutch mash-up at the Barbican to a promenade theatre piece at the V&A – with a thousand miles in between. In a week that spanned the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death, I...
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Is Apple Music really deleting users’ songs without their consent?
It's hard to tell – but the iTunes Terms and Conditions seem to cover the company even if it does. Musician James Pinkstone was a new Apple Music user when he realised that 122GB of music was missing...
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The Hollow Crown and the tricky question of staging the Henry VI plays
The War of the Roses plays are great crowd-pleasing popular hits. So why are adaptations so hard to get right? This week sees the arrival of the second series of BBC Two’s The Hollow Crown, subtitled...
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Sadiq Khan to be elected mayor of London
The MP for Tooting will reclaim City Hall for Labour after eight years. Sadiq Khan is to be elected mayor of London. Though results are still coming through, it is now mathematically impossible for...
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Women don’t make concept albums: how BBC Four’s When Pop Went Epic erases...
Why are the only albums blessed with the grandiose description of “conceptual” the ones made by white men? Tonight, BBC Four airs a documentary exploring the history of the concept album called When...
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How Sadiq Khan won the London mayoral election
The Labour candidate rooted his campaign in his inspirational personal story and learned from his party's general election defeat. This time, the polls weren’t wrong. For months, as Sadiq Khan...
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Northern Ireland election results: a shift beneath the status quo
The power of the largest parties has been maintained, while newer parties running on nicher subjects with no connection to Northern Ireland’s traditional religious divide are rapidly rising. After a...
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As Syrian forces lay waste to Aleppo, how much longer can we tolerate the...
The West has flirted with the dangerous idea that we should somehow accomodate or rehabilitate Bashar al-Assad. Yet nothing will change while he's in power. The fragile ceasefire that has delivered a...
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Football promises to be a book no-one will like – and delivers
Football by Jean-Philippe Toussaint is a strange mix of heightened prose and stilted banality.“This is a book that no one will like,” are Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s opening words, “not intellectuals,...
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Bad vibes: why Britain's nightclubs are closing
New police measures and the lingering effects of the recession have both been blamed for contributing to the decline of the industry. The Arches was one of Glasgow’s most popular nightclubs, renowned...
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What does Sadiq Khan's victory mean for the Remain campaign
It is the forces of Brexit that have suffered in the local elections, argues Will Straw. Sadiq Khan’s victory last night in the London Mayoral contest was hard fought and well deserved. Although I’m...
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I'm now this mag’s longest-serving columnist, the Arsène Wenger of the NS
If I don't get a commemorative alarm clock in June, I'll be furious. It was 20 years ago, back in June 1996, that I started writing this column. There have been only four editors in that time, which...
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