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Labour should get back to its roots - and back Brexit
Supporting a Leave vote would be the right move for the party's working-class supporters, says John Longworth. My fateful Eurosceptic speech at the British Chambers of Commerce conference on the 3...
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Think of the children! What happened when politicians took to BuzzFeed and...
Penny Mordaunt, Nicola Sturgeon, Nigel Farage and David Cameron appeared on BuzzFeed’s live Facebook town hall event to make their cases to a young audience for and against Europe. We all know how...
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Debunking the Brexit myths
Four-fifths of scientists support staying in the EU. Here is why. Scientists are not known for their conformity, but there is one topic on which the great majority agree: being part of the EU is good...
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Speaking in tongues: the greatest European novels, chosen by NS friends and...
From Roddy Doyle to Lionel Shriver, friends of the NS share their favourite European novels. Howard Jacobson Journey to the End of the Night (1932), by Louis-Ferdinand Céline I came late to Journey to...
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The revolution will be tax-free: the libertarian dreams of the Koch brothers
The billionaire brothers who tried to buy the US presidency. This was the year that two of the world’s richest and most conservative men, Charles and David Koch, hoped, in effect, to purchase the US...
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A case for Brixit: the escape and reinvention of the Fall’s first lady
Kate Mossman experiences a day in the life of Brix Smith Start. In pop music, there’s no limit to the number of times you can find yourself back at the bottom. Brix Smith Start, the bombshell Beverly...
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Rival national interests no longer rule the world. The best way to be a force...
A decision to leave the EU will have consequences for the developing world that we have barely begun to consider. The withdrawal of the Indian conglomerate Tata from Britain’s vulnerable steel industry...
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From Trump to Boris, I wouldn’t write The Thick of It now – politics already...
I now find the political landscape so alien and awful that it’s hard to match the waves of cynicism it transmits on its own. Every time a stupid political event happens – whenever a politician tweets...
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Rethinking sovereignty: why “taking back control” is an empty slogan
“Let’s take back control” is an empty slogan unless doing so improves prospects for British citizens. The initial focus of the EU referendum debate was the prospects for the British economy. The most...
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Europe is not an elite conspiracy against the public
The Leave campaign has tried to pitch this debate as being about the people against the establishment. Nothing could be further from the truth. In the debate over our membership of the European Union,...
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Naked sleepwalking, going native in Spain, and the real threat to the NHS and...
Plus: why the EU referendum is our Hillary Clinton v Donald Trump moment. The other day, I read that police in Manchester had picked up a man who was sleepwalking through the city late at night with...
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Are we really living in the age of the second Renaissance?
The sense of an old order degenerating and a new one not yet born recalls the fin de siècle of 120 years ago. There’s a widespread feeling that we live in an era of more than usual change. Some wonder...
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The graceful dance of shape-shifting hares
Hares should be ubiquitous on these hills and gorselands at dusk, enchanting us with their elegant play. After two years of city life, the biggest adjustment I had to make when I came back to rural...
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Live and let live: inside the Free Republic of Liberland
A Czech politician dreams of a libertarian microstate in Europe. When Vit Jedlicka was growing up in Czechoslovakia in the 1980s, his father was removed from his office job at the Institute of Weights...
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50 dead in Florida gay nightclub shooting
The worst mass shooting in American history. At least 50 people are dead and 53 injured after a gunman opened fire at a gay club in Orlando, Florida. The FBI have identified a suspect and declared the...
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The Remain campaign have only thin gruel to keep Britain in the European Union
The weapons available to avert the nightmare of Brexit are not good ones. “If we have to have another Labour-only day, then we’ll be in trouble.” That was the verdict of one senior member of Britain...
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Brexit and the Irish question
Fundamentally, Brexiters are asking the voters to take a monumental gamble, and they have failed to persuade me. I am one of the half-million or so Irish currently living in the United Kingdom. When I...
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Eddie Izzard: Why young people must be heard in the EU debate
If people don’t take their opportunity to determine their own future, other people will do it for them. You’ve caught me in the middle of a rather intense trip around the United Kingdom – 31 cities in...
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Travel back in time to 1970s Britain and see for yourself why people were so...
Carbohydrate, fat: it doesn’t really matter. Eat less and do more. We’ve recently had a public spat between two organisations holding opposing views on what we should be eating. In the blue corner,...
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“We have to carry on kissing”: at a vigil for the Orlando attack
On a summer’s night in Pride month, a home – a safe space for LGBT people – was shattered by an act of terrorism.“A queer club is where I first saw people who look like me,” a speaker says to the...
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