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The Shadow State: how to stop outsourcing scandals
The government should be free to outsource work to whoever it likes: but it must be open in its decisions so it can be held accountable when it gets them wrong. Four years ago, I began to write about...
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Metaphors for madness: the new wave of mental health memoirs
It is no accident that women are writing in ever greater numbers about their mental anguish and pain. I am as pleased as the next person that the appetite for victim memoirs, or “misery memoirs”, has...
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Watch: Owen Jones walks off Sky News debate on whether Orlando was a...
“I just find this the most astonishing thing I’ve ever been involved in on television.” The left wing commentator and journalist Owen Jones walked out of a live paper review on Sky News, following a...
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What is the OECD position on Brexit?
According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Brexit would be “a major negative shock to the UK economy”.The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)...
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The latest EU referendum poll results: is Leave or Remain in the lead?
The most recent opinion polls on the EU referendum show a vanishingly narrow gap between Leave and Remain. Although their reputation for reliability took a pasting in the 2015 general election,...
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Are you more likely to put yourself at risk to help a woman than help a man?
Researchers have conducted experiments to test whether there is a gender bias in costly altruism. Costly altruism – helping others at the cost of yourself – is perhaps a noble cause, but in the fight...
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Why it doesn't matter that Jeremy Corbyn isn't the EU's number one fan
Jeremy Corbyn is being criticised by supporters and enemies. But the criticism is misplaced. Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan, and although the referendum battle isn’t lost yet,...
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Why "it's the economy, stupid" may not be enough to see Remain over the line
The benefits of growth are more unfairly distributed than ever, says Neil James. As the EU referendum campaign enters its final stretch, a flurry of polls have shown a narrow lead for Brexit....
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What Brian Sewell's Art Auction Tells Us About the Man and the Industry
The late Brian Sewell certainly knew what he didn't like but, thanks to a recent decision by his estate, we might finally get an insight into what he did like.When it came to dissecting (or should that...
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Microsoft adds LinkedIn to its professional network
The software provider is paying £26bn for the network - more than three times as much as it paid for Skype. LinkedIn, the "social network for professionals", is easy to mock, especially as it...
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Stop talking about the "tough questions" on immigration. The question is easy
Either you accept the costs of Brexit and absolute border control or you find a way to win support for immigration. It's not hard. Immigration is the stuck record of British politics, and Labour...
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Let’s not get confused about this: Orlando was a queerphobic attack
The difference that made those bodies targets in Orlando is the same difference that makes queer people look over our shoulders and fear for our lives on an almost daily basis. In the immediate...
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Foreign aid isn't an act of charity - it makes us safer, too
Let’s not throw out the baby with the bath water – UK aid is changing lives and helping build a better, safer world for us all. It’s almost exactly two years since Finda Nymah a grandmother from Kpondu...
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The Leave campaign has never looked closer to victory in the EU referendum
Both sides agree that the Brexiters now have unambiguous momentum. The UK is moving ever closer towards Brexit. On that point, both the Remain and Leave campaigns agree. The polling evidence is now...
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Four reasons why it could still be a Remain vote after all
Bad polls aside, Leave's chances may be worse than they appear. The pollster changes, but the poll remains the same: Leave is pulling ahead in the referendum vote. The latest shock to the system...
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Why Hillary Clinton needs Bernie Sanders far more than he needs her
By fighting on until the convention, Bernie Sanders has the chance to extract even more concessions from Clinton and the Democratic Party. At 10pm on 7 June, the night of the California primary,...
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Dreams from my grandfather, the internationalist
British leadership has been crucial in Europe before, and it is crucial now. A great part of grief is regret: the feeling that if only the clock could be turned back, things could be done that were...
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Travelling 320 years through the mind of Annie Proulx in Barkskins
Forest ecology, indigenous culture, sea voyages, Dutch culture, colonial and Maori culture, the logging industry: all these subjects and many more are revealed through the adventures of Proulx’s...
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Latest Brexit odds: where to put your money on the EU referendum
Placing a stake on the Brexit result? Check the latest odds here. Since the beginning of the EU referendum campaign, bookmakers have had Remain pegged as the most likely result. But movement in the...
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From the patterns on a fern to the crinkle of the shoreline, the world needs...
The social and government structures we create also must have some structure on every scale. I believe Britain should stay in the EU. The logical reason is that we need structures of all scales to...
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