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What do we know about the Chilcot inquiry report, and when will it be published?
The report, which was commissioned in 2009, is set to be published on 6 July. When will it come out? The report will be published on July 6th, a letter from John Chilcot to the Prime Minister has...
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The Investigatory Powers Bill would be better suited to a dictatorship
Can we blithely assert – just weeks after the Hillsborough inquest – that the state’s agencies will never abuse power or make mistakes? Three times, Theresa May said the Investigatory Powers Bill was...
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In search of Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin's mysterious creator
In May 2008, Nakamoto published an online paper outlining how the cryptocurrency would work. Then he vanished. Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? This week, he is a computer scientist from Australia. In 2014,...
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Education is as important as shelter and clean water for child refugees
Education and the hope that it brings must become central to the humanitarian work of all – realising the right of every child to be safe, to learn, and to fulfil their aspirations. Ahmed rose from the...
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How Sadiq Khan can make London a more inclusive city
For me, as a British Muslim woman, London is a place of opportunity and a level playing field despite your background. Trump was right, London is becoming “Muslimised”. I like to think of him...
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The wrong trousers: how Marvin Rees won Bristol from George Ferguson
In a contest between a party candidate and an independent mayor, the Labour Party came out on top. Bristol has changed its trousers. On Monday the city waved goodbye to former mayor George Ferguson...
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Familistère values: How one 19th-century stove maker created a socialist...
Jean-Baptiste André Godin was born the poor son of a locksmith. By 1870, he had created an industrial commune in a small town – one of history’s most successful and enduring socialist utopian...
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“You thought you came for human rights”: meet the refugees stranded in Greece...
They number 50,000 and they live in dirt and mud in the middle of Europe.“You thought you came for human rights. But you are like animals; you don’t have any human rights.” This is how Kamal was...
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Jeremy Corbyn has made Labour's moderates intellectually lazy
On the major issues of our time, moderates do not appear to have an alternative direction of travel, let alone a set of popular policy proposals. Thursday was a bad night for the Labour Party. Anyone...
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An anniversary in opposition: new female Labour MPs on their first year in...
Nicola Tree followed five of Labour’s new intake around for the day to find out how they have found their first taste of being women in politics. Paula Sherriff, Labour MP for DewsburyAll photos:...
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PCCs are being given more powers, but nobody cares enough to notice
Those citizens who turned out to vote last week did so to vote for someone to oversee policing and crime reduction in their local areas, not to set up schools or run the courts.“No thanks, buy some...
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Neil Hamilton celebrates becoming a member of the Welsh Assembly by launching...
Two decades after his career was ended in a bribery scandal, the controversial right-winger is back with a vengeance. Even from its burrow, your mole has heard that whatever the result of the EU...
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Have today's politicians killed political satire?
Political comedy could never create as flawless a piece of friendly fire as Ken Livingstone has provided over the past two weeks. This week Sadiq Khan was elected Mayor of London. Phew. He puts to bed...
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Why do people hate Laura Kuenssberg so much?
A petition calling for the BBC's political editor to be sacked for anti-Corbyn bias has been taken down. But was her biggest flaw... being a woman? Remember when the left used to believe in employment...
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Labour may not be dead yet, but last week shows the party is walking wounded
Labour have gone backwards everywhere on their performance in the 2010-15 Parliament, an experience that hardly seemed to cover them in glory even at the time. Last week’s electoral contests across...
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SRSLY #43: The Hollow Crown / Not By Accident / Cry Baby
This week, we chat the new series of Shakespeare adaptations on the BBC, a podcast about middle-aged single motherhood, and a John Waters musical comedy spoof starring Johnny Depp. This is SRSLY, the...
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The Brexit debate must stop ignoring Gibraltar
Gibraltar didn’t ask for this referendum but we did have to take the British government to the European Court of Human Rights in 1999 to win our right to vote in European Parliamentary elections. A...
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David Cameron has grand anti-corruption aims – can he do justice to the...
If the Prime Minister is going to effect change, then tomorrow's anti-corruption summit is his final chance. Over 40 countries are sending representatives to London this week to talk anti-corruption....
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Poisoned cannoli, salt cod and the virgin's breasts
Fertility is perhaps the crucial factor in the history of Sicily. Sicily has long been a victim of its perfect geography. It is the largest island in the Mediterranean, barely 100 miles from the...
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A novel account of unemployment? How Not Working spins gold from the banal
Lisa Owens' funny, serious debut marks her out as one to watch. Some people read in order to experience places they would never otherwise go to: the slums of Mumbai, say, or the court of Henry VIII....
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