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Owen Smith will pick the back benches over a Jeremy Corbyn shadow cabinet
The challenger MP declared he was "Labour to my bones". Jeremy Corbyn has declared himself "disappointed" after his rival Owen Smith appeared to rule out the chance of serving in his shadow cabinet....
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Jeremy Corbyn promises 100,000 new jobs in the North East
The Labour leader spoke in Sunderland about his investment plans. Jeremy Corbyn will on Friday pledge to create a Bank of the North to stimulate a "high skilled, high tech, low carbon economy". The...
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For many in my fearful, frustrated generation, “having it all” means opting...
The Daily Mail would have you believe that polyamory is all wild orgies. Think more tea and washing up rotas. Polyamory, if you believe the newspapers, is the hot new lifestyle option for affectless...
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Theresa May's bad grammar and the problem with capitalist tea bags
This week's diary, from the hard job of chairing a child abuse enquiry to climate change denial. The terms of reference for the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse were “to consider the...
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#CorbynFacts has everyone in the Labour party laughing
Is Jeremy Corbyn electable? Now you can know the facts. During the Labour leadership hustings on Thursday night, Owen Smith and Jeremy Corbyn clashed about the nature of the polls. Corbyn said Labour...
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In living colour: the glorious banality of William Eggleston's photographs
A new exhibition a the National Portrait Gallery shows Eggleston's talent for capturing ordinary ecstasies. William Eggleston may not have been the first colour photographer in art, but he was, at...
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A new generation of pop stars is queering and subverting the high school...
Injecting some much-needed life into the classic genre of music videos set in high school. Summertime at high school has been a favourite setting of music videos for decades. It offers the perfect mix...
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Climate change threatens to unearth hazardous waste at an abandoned Cold War...
Camp Century, a base built under the Greenland ice sheets, could find its nuclear remains exposed to devastating effect as ice and snow melts away. A military camp built beneath the surface of a...
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Asad Shah murder: It's time the Government cracked down on hate preachers
A Glaswegian shopkeeper was murdered for his beliefs. I never knew Asad Shah personally, but as one of my fellow Ahmadi Muslims, I may have bumped in to during one of our annual conventions, the...
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Whatever happened to Labour winning back Scotland?
A country's former masters are fighting to survive. On 11 August, Jeremy Corbyn’s new shadow Scottish secretary, a man from the North East of England called Dave Anderson, went to visit Aberdeen. And...
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Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and why Russia is such a big part of the US...
What do claims about the Republican candidate’s relationship with America’s old foe mean for the race to the presidency? Back in 2012, Barack Obama mocked his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, for...
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Labour wins bid to exclude 130,000 new members from the leadership contest
The decision is a blow for Jeremy Corbyn's leadership campaign. Labour National Executive Committee has won its appeal at the High Court, with the result that more than 130,000 new members will be...
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The High Court's judgment won't stop Jeremy Corbyn winning
But it may change what happens after. The High Court giveth, and the Court of Appeal taketh away. The Labour Party has won its appeal against the ruling that party members who joined after the...
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Blairite, Trot, Entryist - why Labour's slurs are so misleading
No-one can easily explain what is happening to Labour's politics. If you had to pick a word to sum up Labour’s internal state, it would still probably be "confusion". We all know our lines – for me,...
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Word of the week: NECpotism
Each week The Staggers will pick a new word to describe our uncharted political and socioeconomic territory. As the battle of the Labour leadership drags on in the courts, the word of the week...
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The tolerant philosopher: why Pierre Bayle is the forgotten figure of the...
Voltaire said he was the greatest reasoner who ever set pen to paper. But is there a twist to Bayle's thinking? Pierre Bayle, a French thinker who died in Rotterdam in 1706, is the forgotten hero of...
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Why, despite everything, I won't be trying dating apps
Yes, my love life may be in need of a spark, but I won’t use Tinder to get the flames going. A friend recently suggested that I go on Tinder. For those who do not know, this is apparently an “app”,...
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Why “natural wine” tastes so unnatural
Spraying vines with sulphur ensures a consistent product – but some critics object. In February, Dame Sally Davies, the chief medical officer for England, made the horrifying announcement that she...
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“Midnight Sun”: a short story by Chigozie Obioma
New fiction from the author of the Man Booker-shortlisted novel The Fishermen.A child does not die because its mother’s breast is empty of milk. Igbo proverbThe man to whom she had finally opened her...
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Walking while female: how Flâneuse encourages its reader to take to the streets
Lauren Elkin's study of women walkers shows how putting one foot in front of the other can be a radical act.“Place names were the most powerful magic I knew,” Martha Gellhorn wrote in her memoir...
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