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Challenges lie ahead after Aung San Suu Kyi's victory in Burma
Burma's vote for changes has thrown up new problems – not least, how to deal with corruption. It has been a long road for the Burmese. As the Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for...
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Never have football's top players earned so much money – and enjoyed it less
The discipline now is brutal. All the staff at Man United will probably have to sign a form saying they’ll never talk to van Gaal unless he speaks first. Oh no, it’s another weekend without any decent...
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The 1939 Register: where did Britain sleep before war was declared?
The register brings the texture of one night 76 years ago within touching distance. What will happen for other records like it? The 1939 Register is a “wartime Domesday Book”. Vast and yet intimate,...
View ArticleGeorge Osborne's latest wheeze leaves the taxpayer £125m worse off every...
Far from getting a great deal for taxpayers, the Treasury will be the worse off in the long run, explains Jolyon Maugham. Here’s what George Osborne tweeted the morning the government sold off...
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James Bond's real enemy? The British housing crisis
I would argue that Spectre, despite all its aerial gymnastics, also has a subtext dug deeply into the built environment. I want to write about Spectre, the new James Bond film . . . No! Don’t turn the...
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Disproportionate coverage of Paris attacks is not just the media’s fault
Actual audience behaviour is increasingly impacting on journalistic decision-making – it’s not just journalists’ fault anymore. The horrendous terrorist attacks in Paris and the resulting blanket...
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Jeremy Corbyn criticises media for lack of coverage of Beirut and Ankara...
The Labour leader said the events were given "hardly any publicity". Jeremy Corbyn has accused the British media of failing to give adequate coverage to terrorist attacks in Beirut and Ankara. Twin...
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What is the point of changing your Facebook profile picture to a French flag?
If you aren’t personally affected by the attacks in Paris, then putting a filter on your profile picture can look a lot like a superficial repetition of a publicly acceptable opinion. It is shocking,...
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Where David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn agree on Syria
Both leaders emphasise that a political solution is required. The Paris attacks have revived the debate over whether the UK should participate in air strikes against Isis in Syria. But they have not...
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Labour must set the terms of the devolution debate
George Osborne cannot get away with posing as a kind of lord high devolutioner. It is amazing how quickly ideas can come into fashion in political debate. Just a few years ago arguments about...
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What is the Schengen Area – and what could happen to it now?
Europe's commitment to free movement is being contested. What is the Schengen Area? The Schengen Area is defined by the Schengen Agreement – an accord between 26 countries in Europe that have...
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Writing under the English skies: how artists handle the weather
Two new books by Alexandra Harris and Christine L Corton show how weather - and pollution - have powered the English imagination. I was once shown one of Kenneth Williams’s desk diaries. On each page...
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Morgen und Abend is thoughtful and beautiful – but it does little for opera
English Nationa Opera's The Force of Destiny and The Royal Opera House's Morgen und Abend. When the curtain rises on a Calixto Bieito production you instinctively brace. On previous form the Catalan...
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Paris shooters may have used PlayStations to communicate – it’s unlikely a...
David Cameron is using the Paris attacks as an excuse to rush through state surveillance legislation. After Friday’s attacks on Paris, the French security services began trying to figure out whether –...
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Jeremy Corbyn's refusal to offer Labour MPs a free vote on Syria shows his...
Against expectations, the opposition leader says shadow ministers will not be permitted to support air strikes against Isis. Since Jeremy Corbyn became Labour leader the assumption has been that he...
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Paris attacks: François Hollande declares “France is at war” with Islamic State
The French President cracks down and police make arrests across France as a manhunt continues, following terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 129 people. The French President François Hollande says...
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Could the radical right benefit from the Paris attacks?
Increased fear of migration would be a political boon for the populist right. The passport of a Syrian refugee was found by the body of a dead suicide bomber outside the Stade de France. The man is...
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SRSLY #18: Home from home
On the pop culture podcast this week we discuss Aziz Ansari’s new show Master of None, the film adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn and the 2005 film Transamerica. This is SRSLY, the pop culture...
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François Hollande has called for an international response to Isis – will it...
As the French president calls on the European Union to support his country's airstrikes, the possibility of a Nato coalition against Isis is more likely than ever. France’s President Hollande has...
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American elections only seem too long because British elections are too short
If America elected their President as speedily as the British pick their Prime Minister, Donald Trump would already be draping chintz in the Oval Office. The British pride ourselves on speedily...
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