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What male contraceptives are scientists working on? And how soon can we use...
The male Pill, the male coil, and a medication made from papaya seeds. When you think about it, male contraception makes more logical sense than female contraception: to put it bluntly, it’s safer to...
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How Tony Blair’s disingenuous line on Iraq eroded our faith in politicians
Not the Chilcot Report by Peter Oborne reveals how Blair exagerrated evidence from the intelligence services to parliament – and the public.*/ In this incisive book, Peter Oborne calls the invasion of...
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Chuka Umunna: Why tolerance is not enough
Against the Trumpification of politics. It’s still spring, yet 2016 already stands out as one of the ugliest years in modern British political history. It was fantastic to see Londoners choosing hope...
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The DM slide: an investigation
What is it? Why does it cause such trouble? And how can you be better at it?“What is a DM slide?” The minute I proposed this piece I spotted a problem. “I’m going to do a piece on ‘the DM slide’”, I’d...
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Lessons for Tooting: how to be a by-election candidate
Prepare for microwave meals, enormous piles of ironing, and visits from helpful MPs. Last week I visited Tooting, where the election of Sadiq Khan as Mayor of London has led to a by-election. It was...
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The continuity between Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn
The left say that the former leader created crucial intellectual and political space for them. One of the errors in the leaked list ranking Labour MPs by favourability to Jeremy Corbyn was the...
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I can’t be the only one who has noticed that every dish in the Western...
Raclette, cheesy crackers, baguettes – even ice-cream is just cheese in waiting. Scientists examining a chicken nugget have discovered DNA from over a hundred individuals mixed into a fowl mush. It...
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What progressives can learn from Europe
The centre-left must articulate its own vision of a cohesive society, backed by an understanding of sovereignty that accepts the nation-state is the central pillar of security and belonging. The debate...
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I'm playing sports again – but things just aren't cricket
I start the new season with red wine stains on my cap, a dodgy shoulder and a burnt nostril. I’ve put my name up for the first match of the season, playing for that team of redoubtable cricketers, the...
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When do you step in when a stranger is in distress?
Methodically, he lined up four cans of beer, spirit miniatures and a glass of wine, and got to work on them. In a very British way, I pretended to ignore it. A little while ago I was on a commuter...
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So many teenage girls don’t want to identify as girls any more. And who can...
Among internet-literate teenagers, gender has become the primary way to challenge the mores of older generations. On the bus back from the cinema, a conversation drifted over from the back row. A...
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Lionel Shriver's new novel creates a whole world – but can't quite grasp its...
Like Shriver's previous offerings, The Mandibles: a Family – 2029-2047 takes on a difficult topic: this time, American debt. If your son takes a bow-and-arrow set to school and kills nine of his...
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What the Operation Black Vote poster row tells us about race in Britain
The poster aimed to draw attention to the cause of BAME voter participation - instead it stirred something deep in the British psyche. Political advertising campaigns need to be controversial, but go...
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The Land Registry sale puts a quick buck before common sense
Without a publicly-owned Land Registry, property scandals would be much harder to uncover. Britain’s family silver is all but gone. Sale after sale since the 1970s has stripped the cupboards bare: our...
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Peter Thiel vs Gawker: a new way for rich men to control the media
Whatever the rights and wrongs of the case, we should be worried when money men are attempting to punish the media from behind closed doors. Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, is a man with a lot of...
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Working class girls don't threaten our universities, they enrich them
Widening participation is good for universities because it enables them to recruit the students who have the very highest potential, regardless of their personal circumstances. British universities are...
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Russian pools, despatches from the Pole, and disagreeing with my son Boris on...
My week, from Moscow to Westminster Hour. With the weather in Moscow last week warm, if not balmy, I thought about taking a dip in the vast heated open-air swimming pool that I remembered from a...
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The Pier Falls is a skilful short story collection – and the glummest book...
There's no doubting Mark Haddon's talent, but if his stories are sympathetic, there's not much pity in them. The unremitting bleakness of Mark Haddon’s first book of short stories seems to have...
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Why might you invest in Europe?
At Henderson we believe the European market is a fertile hunting ground for investment opportunities. The market’s depth and breadth, with its regional variations and, at times, political uncertainty,...
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An alien for Putin: are emojis changing the face of diplomacy?
Emojis could be the promised land of diplomatic history: they have the potential to speak across borders to a new, global citizenry. Three sets of side-eyes, a tears-of-joy face, a sunglasses face, a...
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