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You're wrong about Leave voters - four surprising facts about the 52 per cent
Leave voters are not as anti-immigrant as you think. He is an old man from a coastal town. He’s uneducated by modern standards, and worked for an industry that is now defunct. He spends his...
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The murder of fearless journalist Pavel Sheremet must be solved - but Ukraine...
Sheremet was blown up as he drove to host a morning radio programme On 20th of July Kiev was shaken by the news of the assassination of the respected Belarusian journalist Pavel Sheremet. Outside the...
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When faith found its Article 50: exploring the theology of Martin Luther
New books by Lyndal Roper and Diarmaid MacCulloch reveal the scatalogy and theology of one of history's best known theologians. Protestantism was the first great Eurosceptic thing, the setting up of...
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How Rome's new mayor Virginia Raggi is leading a normality revolution
The first female Roman mayor has promised an end to posturing public figures. The Ottavia area of Rome, on the northern periphery of the Italian capital, is a part of the city that tourists rarely...
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Proms 2016: Violinist Ray Chen was the star of a varied show
The orchestra soaked up his energy in Bruch's first violin concerto to end on a triumphal note. Music matters, but so does its execution. This was the lesson of a BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC...
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Meet the hot, funny, carefree Cool Mums – the maternal version of the Cool Girl
As new film Bad Moms reveals, what the cool girl is to the diet-obsessed prom queen, the cool mum is to the PTA harpy. I suppose we should all be thankful. Time was when “mum’s night off” came in the...
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Hillary Clinton can take down the Donald Trump bogeyman - but she's up...
Donald Trump still has time to transform. Eight years later than hoped, Hillary Clinton finally ascended to the stage at the Democratic National Convention and accepted the nomination for President....
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The unique intimacy of Uber Pool: how I form fleeting, intense relationships...
There’s something fascinating about being in such a close setting with people you will never meet again. It feels like fate should happen. A lesbian couple is fighting over me. I mean, not over me,...
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Labour's establishment suspects a Momentum conspiracy - they're right
Bernie Sanders-style organisers are determined to rewire the party's machine. If you wanted to understand the basic dynamics of this year’s Labour leadership contest, Brighton and Hove District...
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Erdogan’s purge was too big and too organised to be a mere reaction to the...
There is a specific word for the melancholy of Istanbul. The city is suffering a mighty bout of something like hüzün at the moment. Even at the worst of times Istanbul is a beautiful city, and the...
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How Drake gamed the UK Singles Chart to spend 15 weeks at number one
Take a superstar rapper, add a “global” sound, with a liberal helping of rhythmic vagueness, and subtract the visuals, and you could have your very own trail-blazing UK number one. Which singles would...
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The Express corrects over a third of “facts” in this pro-Brexit piece...
It was forced to remove the entire article, which was riddled with misinformation. The europhobic, flag-waving tabloid (logo: a sad St George) has been forced to correct and remove a pro-Brexit list...
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Named persons controversy: How good intentions paved the way to a snooper state
A court halted the Scottish Government's plans in their tracks. Andrew Smith is an academic at a respected Scottish university, and a dad. One of his sons, aged two years, took to sucking his thumb...
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Word of the week: Quitaly
Each week The Staggers will pick a new word to describe our uncharted political and socioeconomic territory. As Italy's banks creak under European Union stress tests, the word of the week is:Quitaly...
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Memory flash: can you teach creative writing?
D B C Pierre ponders whether writing is a teachable subject in his new book, Release the Bats: Writing Your Way Out of It. It’s the age-old question: can creative writing be taught? To which the...
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Got to catch them all: why is Pokémon Go so popular?
For all its much-publicized perils, the game remains successful. The reason why is surprisingly simple. Two men fell off a cliff. A teenager was hit by a car. A woman got stuck in a tree. The global...
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The news this week: BHS, MI5 and BMWs
A Brexit boon for accountants, knights and peers in disgrace, and more woe at the Guardian. Brexit was supposed to be a triumph for the common people, fed up with a metropolitan-based elite getting...
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Jeremy Corbyn's economic advisers back Owen Smith
Simon Wren-Lewis warns of a "terrifying" drop into electoral irrelevance. Two of Jeremy Corbyn's economic advisers have backed his challenger, Owen Smith, after concluding the embattled leader cannot...
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A distinguished gentleman: inside the world of Malcolm Rifkind
Rifkind’s genteel new book, Power and Pragmatism, is a beguiling memoir. Shortly after Margaret Thatcher’s government proposed the poll tax in 1986, the Daily Record referred to Malcolm Rifkind, who...
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Britain's manufacturers are already reeling from Brexit - this is how to...
The new Chancellor should set out an investment plan in a "Summer Statement". UK manufacturing activity fell in July to the lowest level since 2013. As today’s grim reading shows, the writing is...
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