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The internet was supposed to liberate us - let’s claim our freedom
This week the Women's Equality Party launches an e-Quality campaign against online bullying and harassment in all of its forms. Yesterday – a sunny, energetic day in our office - someone appeared on...
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Brexit campaign publishes private phone numbers of Eurosceptic rivals
Leave.EU hate the EU and hate Vote Leave who also hate the EU. What could go wrong? Remember Leave.EU? Not to be confused with Vote Leave, which is the pro-Brexit group led by one of the former mayors...
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North Yorkshire has approved the UK’s first fracking tests in five years....
Is fracking the answer to the UK's energy future? Or a serious risk to the environment? Shale gas operation has been approved in North Yorkshire, the first since a ban introduced after two minor...
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SRSLY #45: Love, Nina, Internet Histories Week, The Secret in Their Eyes
This week on the pop culture podcast, we chat Nick Hornby’s adaptation of Nina Stibbe’s literary memoir, our histories on the internet, and an Oscar-winning 2009 Argentinian thriller.*/ This is SRSLY,...
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Why the Psychoactive Substances Act is much better than anyone will admit
Under the Psychoactive Substances Act it will not be a criminal offence for someone to possess for their own consumption recreational drugs too dangerous to be legally sold to the public. From...
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Harry Potter and the Minotaur’s Rage: how fanfiction got me into writing
My fanfiction was almost uniformly awful, like most of the things I did or liked when I was becoming myself.The source of the noise was clear. Some kind of monster was emerging from the wood."Easy,...
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Obama's Hiroshima visit is a wake up call on the risks of nuclear weapons
The president's historic visit must lead to fresh efforts to rid our world of destructive missiles and safeguard our futures. We now know more than ever the dangers of an accidental or deliberate...
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In this week's magazine | The Brexit odd squad
A first look at this week's issue.The Brexit odd squad27 May - 2 June issue Cover Story: The Brexit odd squad. Stephen Bush on how a ragtag bunch of anti-Europeans rattled the Establishment. Diary:...
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"She wore a USB cord instead of a necklace": whatever happened to Cyberfeminism?
The movement was young, energetic, educated, and art school-heavy. Above all it was “positive”: both cyber-positive and sex-positive. Sometime in the late 1990s, I met someone else called Joanna Walsh....
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PMQs review: George Osborne is improving but Angela Eagle gives Labour MPs...
The shadow first secretary of state revelled in the Tories' splits. For months, Labour MPs have despaired at their party's failure to exploit the Tories' visceral EU divisions. But at today's PMQs,...
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Enescu’s Oedipe at the Royal Opera House: a neglected work worth revisiting
A new production of this little-heard Romanian piece shows that neglected doesn’t necessarily mean second-rate when it comes to opera. In the opening visual sequence of Oedipe, the Catalan theatrical...
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Do the abusive messages sent to One Direction members reveal a darker side to...
Incidents like this are often used to characterise all young female fans, but this isn’t about fandom. It’s harassment. */ One Direction’s Niall Horan is the internet’s favourite innocent blond...
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For 19 minutes, I thought I had won the lottery
The agonising minutes spent figuring out my mistake paired beautifully with hard, low wisdom tooth throbs. Nineteen minutes ago, I was a millionaire. In my head, I’d bought a house and grillz that say...
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Will anyone sing for the Brexiters?
The five acts booked to perform at pro-Brexit music festival Bpop Live are down to one. Do Brexiters like music too? If the lineup of Bpoplive (or more accurately: “Brexit Live presents: Bpop Live”)...
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How Labour risks becoming a party without a country
Without establishing the role of Labour in modern Britain, the party is unlikely ever to govern again.“In my time of dying, want nobody to mournAll I want for you to do is take my body home”- Blind...
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Tony Blair might be a toxic figure - but his influence endures
Politicians at home and abroad are borrowing from the former prime minister's playbook. On 24 May at Methodist Central Hall, Westminster, a short distance from where he once governed, Tony Blair...
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“I’m downloading stuff from first thing in the morning”: at 76, Radio 1 DJ...
The longest-serving Radio 1 DJ chats grime, sexism, and Donald Trump.“I didn't start off being ambitious; I was just enthusiastic about the music.” From anyone else, this would seem like a platitude....
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The Taliban's succession crisis will not diminish its resilience
Haibatullah Akhunzada's appointment as leader of the Taliban may put stress on the movement, but is unlikely to dampen its insurgency. After 19 years under the guidance of the Taliban’s supreme leader...
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Love him or loathe him, Britain needs more Alan Sugar
Big business is driving down wages, failing to invest, and funnelling rewards to the richest. Entrepreneurs - and the state - need to fill the gap. The business baron who loves a bust-up has just...
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Why Britain’s Bangladeshis are so successful
In an age of fear about immigration, the success of the Bangladeshi population in Britain has a deeper resonance. No day is complete without fears about immigrants failing to integrate in Britain....
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