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What does it say about the BBC's attitude to domestic violence that Tyson...
If the BBC were to take seriously its commitment to diversity, then it should make the Sports Personality of the Year shortlist 50:50 women and men. Fewer thugs, more brilliant sportswomen. I’ve been...
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Expand Heathrow? That's a map to environmental disaster
The third runway makes neither environmental nor social sense, argues Ruth Cadbury. Under the last Labour government, the UK was a world leader on environmental issues. This is an area where we...
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Will Self goes to Chipotle, and finds the culinary treasures of the Sierra...
Chi-pôte-lay isn’t only frequently mispronounced. It’s also continuously misconceived. It’s spelled “Chipotle”, as in the Nahuatl name for the fiery jalapeño chilli, but pronounced “Chi-pôte-lay”,...
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Our brothers’ keepers: Harry Leslie Smith visits the “Jungle” in Calais
As a young British soldier in 1945, Harry Leslie Smith witnessed Europe’s last great refugee crisis. Now, aged 92, he meets a new generation of refugees. In early November, I took the Eurostar from St...
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Grace under fire: Marilynne Robinson’s essays sing with the thrill of...
In The Givenness of Things, Marilynne Robinson deploys the heroic, sonorous prose of the founding fathers in the cause of right. If you were to bioengineer a living embodiment of unhipness and...
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Among sporting brothers, one is always the boss as the Nevilles show
Gary Neville will be bossing around his younger brother, Phil, at Valencia, now that he has become manager. I have never worked with my brother. I left home at 18 when I went to university and never...
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Free the grapes: take terroir with a pinch of salt
Not that the concept of terroir refers purely to soil. It is sunshine, rainfall, maybe even air quality: the ineffable difference between one place and another. Terroir is the passion of wine...
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No place like home: a meditation on the meaning of hotels
Hotel by Joanna Walsh is deft and imaginative, tripping between references to Katherine Mansfield, Mae West, the Marx Brothers and Karl Marx.“There was a time in my life when I lived in hotels,” writes...
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Claire-Louise Bennett’s Pond is earthy and dark – and very hard to write about
Like Lydia Davis, Bennett uses a solitary, highly educated female narrator who contemplates chores with a literary-linguistic cast of mind. Claire-Louise Bennett’s disorientating, exhilarating debut,...
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Why Government must get its act together on aviation, not simply on...
Wherever the new tarmac goes in the South East, it will take a decade or so before aircraft land on it. Ministers have got themselves into an embarrassing pickle over whether to build a new runway at...
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Morning Call: The best from Gibraltar
A selection of the best articles about politics, business and life on the Rock from the last seven days. One for the teenagers here - a reminiscence about the Royal Navy showing its defiance against...
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Front National pushed into third place in French regional elections
The party finished behind the Republican and Socialist parties in the second round of voting. France's Front National party has come third in the second round of voting in France's regional...
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Time to deliver change
Today is National Postal Workers Day and, in the run-up to Christmas, one of the busiest posting days of the year – so it is an appropriate time to remind people of the importance of the service and...
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Arise, Lord Livingstone?
Could the former Mayor of London be headed back to the political frontline? Could Ken Livingstone be heading back to the political frontline? The Sun on Sunday reports that he could return to the...
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The Robert Dyas Christmas advert: what does sexuality have to do with drill...
In a proudly low budget production, soundtracked by an instrumental version of “We Wish You A Merry Christmas”, a middle aged woman says, “I’m bisexual and I always find something I love at Robert...
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The worst place for poor students in the UK? Scotland
Free education in Scotland: a bung for the middle class, paid for by the poor. On his penultimate day as First Minister last year, Alex Salmond unveiled a huge commemorative stone at Heriot-Watt...
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SRSLY #22: Time for Adventures
On the pop culture podcast this week, we discuss the BBC adaptation of Capital, find joy in Rainbow Rowell’s novels Fangirl and Carry On, and get our teeth into Adventure Time. This is SRSLY, the pop...
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What does Vladimir Putin want from the UN's next secretary-general?
The shadow of an American or Russian veto will colour the next year at the United Nations. In the years of crisis and decline that followed the breakup of the Soviet Union, three things enabled...
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Designed for life: creating technology that encourages behavioural change
By taking into account psychological drivers, the health-care industry can create products and services that will help individuals improve the way they manage their health and well-being. Losing...
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A tale of two kingdoms
Nicola Sturgeon and David Cameron are miles apart on human rights. I’m a lecturer and to make them laugh, I used to say to students it’s a great time to be alive, now I say it’s a great time to be...
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