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The investigation into Australia’s “Abu Ghraib” could neglect wider abuses in...
Footage from a youth detention centre in the Northern Territory capital, Darwin, may not be enough for authorities to finally address endemic discrimination in the region. It isn’t Abu Ghraib, but you...
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SRSLY #52: New Blood / Absolutely Fabulous / Bewitched
On the pop culture podcast this week: Anthony Horowitz police procedural New Blood, the Absolutely Fabulous movie and the 2005 film Bewitched by Nora Ephron. This is SRSLY, the pop culture podcast...
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Why Theresa May is a smuggler's best friend when it comes to child refugees
Children prefer to disappear than trust the authorities. On Monday, Theresa May abolished the post of minister for Syrian Refugees. On Tuesday, a House of Lords select committee report found there...
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Poverty Britain calling Labour: Get radical or lose your heartlands to the right
Moderate policies don't reflect the extremity of the times. If you woke up on the 24th June in shock to the news that Britain had voted to leave the EU, you won't have been alone. Perhaps you also...
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The stuff of life: how A S Byatt intertwined the lives of William Morris and...
In Peacock & Vine, Byatt has turned works of art and their shade, texture, patina and heft into words. How to evoke a colour in words? It is a task of daunting simplicity which A S Byatt attempts...
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“The Hole-Up”: a poem by Matthew Sweeney
“You could taste the raw / seagull you’d killed and plucked, / the mussels you’d dug from sand, / the jellyfish that wobbled in your / hands as you slobbered it.”*/ Lying on your mouth and nose on the...
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The triumph of Misbah-ul-Haq, the quiet grafter
How Misbah redeemed Pakistani cricket. It was an incongruous sight: the entire Pakistani cricket team doing press-ups on the revered pitch at Lord’s, led by its captain, Misbah-ul-Haq. This unusual...
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Eyes on the peaks and a heart in the valley
During the summer months, the Swiss Alps offer one of nature’s most gorgeous spectacles. Usually, whenever I arrive in Switzerland (where I am currently enjoying a brief summer respite), I cannot wait...
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Owen Smith promises to be a "cold-eyed revolutionary" - but tiptoes round Brexit
The Labour leader challenger takes Jeremy Corbyn on at his own anti-austerity game. Owen Smith may be challenging Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership but it seems he has learnt a thing or two...
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Unravelling the mystery of graphene, the “wonder material” invisible to the...
Discovered in Manchester, the invisible 2D substance is currently being explored in an exhibition examining its history and revealing its potential. Take a few steps into the Museum of Science and...
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A first look at this week’s magazine | Summer double issue
All the highlights from the new issue.29 July - 11 August Summer double issue Special report: Stephen Bush visits three Labour heartlands.George Eaton on the challenge facing Jeremy Corbyn.Xan Rice...
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Why Labour's dismal poll ratings won't harm Jeremy Corbyn's re-election chances
Members didn't vote for him on electoral grounds and believe his opponents would fare no better. On the day of Theresa May's coronation as Conservative leader, a Labour MP texted me: "Can you imagine...
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France is changing: an army stalks the streets and Boris Johnson wanders the...
Will Self on the militarisation of France, and Boris Johnson at the Foreign Office. At the corner of the rue D’Hauteville and the rue de Paradis in the tenth arrondissement of Paris is a...
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Four times Owen Smith has made sexist comments
The Labour MP for Pontypridd and Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership rival has been accused of misogynist remarks. Again. 2016 Wanting to “smash” Theresa May “back on her heels” During a speech at a...
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The Man Booker Prize 2016: the longlist has been announced
Six women and four debut novels make the list on a year with a number of notable omissions and surprise inclusions. The longlist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize has been announced today, with a number...
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Nobody's bargaining chips: How EU citizens are fighting back against Theresa May
Immigration could spike after Brexit, the Home Affairs select committee warned. In early July, EU citizens living in Scotland received some post from the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon. The letters...
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The myth of the Entitled Fan
From abuse of Ghostbusters actor Leslie Jones to the #GiveElsaAGirlfriend movement, accusations of “fan entitlement” are simplistic and wrong. I spent the past weekend at San Diego Comic-Con, one of...
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Brexit is the beginning of the end for Northern Ireland
The age-old bid for a unified Ireland is now wearing utilitarian clothes. Brexit has presented British politics with something akin to a "reverse West Lothian Question". Instead of worrying why Scots...
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Jeremy Corbyn and his opponents are now locked in a permanent struggle
Labour MPs will neither accept Corbyn’s leadership nor abandon the party if he wins again. In September 2003, outraged by Tony Blair’s support for the Iraq War, Jeremy Corbyn declared in the Morning...
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Trade unions must adapt to the gig economy in order to survive
We can’t allow the story of UK trade unionism to just be about managing decline. While the world around trade unions has rapidly changed, there is an impression trade unions have remained stuck in the...
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