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Why we should let all boys wear skirts to school
New uniform codes are spreading across schools to help transgender pupils. But if we want to be truly progressive, we should abolish segregated clothing altogether. As Paris Lees once wisely...
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Freud said there’s no such thing as accidents. So why did I miss the closing...
It is shut. I can see this from some way off. The familiar lights are dark, the outside tables no longer there. I press my nose against the window. Tuesday evening: 31 May, to be precise. It’s been a...
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Does it matter that The Sun has come out for Brexit?
The tabloid supports Britain leaving the EU. In British politics, it is a favourite activity of everyone who doesn’t read The Sun to proclaim that The Sun’s opinion counts the most. Your mole finds a...
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“Stone Love (for Tracey Emin)”: a poem by Carol Ann Duffy
“My hand on what I take from time and this world / and the stone’s shadow there on the grass with mine.”*/ I married a tall, dark, handsome stone in its lichen suit; secret, sacred, the ceremony above...
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How David Cameron has betrayed Syrian refugees in Lebanon
Promises the Prime Minister made to Syrian refugees, along with UN politics, has produced hundreds of thousands of child slaves and prostitutes in Lebanon. Much has been written of late of how David...
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If Brexit wins, the Tories will rip up workers' rights
Leaving the European Union carries a price Labour voters can't afford to pay, warns Jack Dromey.“They pretend to be soft and cuddly do the Outers,” Gordon, an old engineering union shop steward told...
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It's time for leftwing supporters of Brexit to wake up
A Leave victory would represent the biggest rightward shift in our politics since Margaret Thatcher's 1979. Fear is, they say, wisdom in the face of danger. And in the final push countdown to the EU...
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Love wins, actually
At the Soho vigil for the Orlando shooting victims, I watched the balloons rise, and I felt it go: the razor-edge of my rage I’d been slicing myself against all day. It’s been a hard few days. The...
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Turning carbon dioxide into rocks – a new hope in the fight against climate...
A research project in Iceland has found a way of reducing carbon dioxide levels, potentially opening up a new way of tackling global warming. Can anyone deny climate change at this point? As global...
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Remain or Leave? Watch the numbers below the headlines
The lesson of the 2015 general election is to look for the clues underneath the surface. After a long campaign, we are now only a week away from the vote on the UK’s membership of the European Union....
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Could football be the key to the European debate?
Euro 2016 could be as destructive to David Cameron as the 1970 World Cup was to Harold Wilson. There has been much middle-class hand-wringing about whether 200,000 Glastonbury goers - never the most...
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SRSLY #47: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Love and Friendship, Louis Theroux
On the pop culture podcast this week: the huge excitement that is the new Harry Potter play, Jane Austen movie adaptation Love and Friendship, and the latest Louis Theroux documentary. This is SRSLY,...
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“I haven’t got a copy of Hitler’s manifesto”: Ken Livingstone’s appearance at...
Five words into the select committee hearing, and the former London Mayor is already talking about Hitler. Hitler. Might as well mention him first, just to get it out of the way. It has to be done,...
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"Project Fear" is back - and it's still Remain's best hope
George Osborne and Alistair Darling's dystopian warning is more potent than desperate promises of EU reform. For last two days, as the Leave campaign has taken the lead, the Remain side has shifted...
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No country is an island: the right and wrong ways of thinking with history
The problem is in the kind of history people are thinking with. Is it useful to think with history? Or is this an outmoded reflex, as the cultural historian Carl Schorske once suggested, something that...
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Being a part of something larger than states and empires is a source of...
The greatest failure of the Remain campaign is its pessimism. One of the oddities of the Leave campaign, from a historical point of view, is the confidence with which its supporters look forward to...
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An island, but not in isolation
Why we should not be isolationist. One of the most common phrases in political debate in recent decades has been “Britain and Europe”: a formulation that suggests that these two entities are at once...
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Jeremy Corbyn's defence of free movement is the right approach
Labour needs to focus on the economic cost of Brexit, not make promises they can't keep. Having spent the first part of the campaign seeing the pro-Remain message they badly need voters to hear – that...
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“How To Vote If You Are A Flat Cloud”: a poem by Patrick Mackie
*/ Europe is being painted once again by Giorgio de Chirico, he knows enough for one thing to ignore the hubbub, or to place it all in the distance like a train whirling on pale and awkward tracks, the...
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Last week, I went to one restaurant three times and had the same meal – but I...
It’s not a great restaurant, but that doesn’t bother me, because the important thing about Joe Allen in Covent Garden is that it is pretty much unchanged since it first opened in the late 1970s. I once...
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