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When good games go bad
Sometimes the wave of excitement about a new game can take a few days to subside. Once it has, what is left? The backlash against a videogame, when it comes, if it comes, can often be one of the...
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How David Bowie made this lesbian loner hate herself a little bit less
There’s so much irony in Bowie being appointed king of the outcasts. When the coolest guy in the world is an outsider, what’s an insider? I’m about fourteen and I’m on a boring coach to boring...
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SRSLY #26: Portrait of a Murderer
On the pop culture podcast this week, we discuss the Netflix documentary phenomenon Making a Murderer, Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, and the film Quartet.*/ This is SRSLY, the pop culture podcast from...
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If Jeremy Hunt wants to blame someone for today's strike, he should look in...
It's not "militants" or "greedy doctors" who are to blame for today's strike. It's the government. At various points over the last few months Jeremy Hunt has blamed junior doctors for almost every...
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No one in Labour is a Trot – or a Tory, for that matter
We have to rise beyond the namecalling. Before the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party, I hadn't known that there were so many politically active scholars of Leon Trotsky in the...
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David Cameron's rhetoric writes a big cheque - but the policy can't cash it
The best way to expose Cameron? Take him seriously. David Cameron has discovered the inner cities. It comes to all Tory leaders eventually. Edward Heath had the Inner Areas Programme. Margaret...
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Labour MPs move to reassert their position on the party's NEC
A motion, to be debated at next week's PLP meeting, will codify the PLP's position on the NEC. The parliamentary Labour party will amend its standing orders to strip a Corbyn ally of his place on the...
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In Camera: History recorded
Sometimes a bit of adversity helps someone to focus. Broadcaster Clive Golt found this out on the road to making his seminal series, In Camera. Clive Golt is now Media Director for HM Government of...
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David Cameron has a speech - but he doesn't have a strategy
It's a shortage of cash, not of classes, that is the real problem for Britain's families What should a responsible party of opposition do when confronted with what, at first glance, looks like a...
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Why the junior doctors’ strike matters to everyone
Overworked and tired doctors make mistakes, so getting these arrangements wrong is tantamount to gambling with patients’ lives. Doctors are striking for the first time in over 40 years. We do so with...
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What happens if you find the people who owned your second-hand books?
Second-Hand Stories by Josh Spero follows the author as he tracks down the previous owners of his books. It is a lovely idea and you wonder why it hasn’t been done before: tracking down the previous...
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Junior doctors on why they are on strike
We catch up with some junior doctors striking outside the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, East London. Akhtar, GP registrarWhy are you on strike?“The contract isn’t fair on junior doctors....
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Stiff upper lips: an English history of emotion
Two new books chart our changing feelings around feelings. Helen Maria Williams observed the French Revolution at first hand. A poet, essayist and novelist known for her support of radical causes, she...
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New social app Peach will be successful if it can achieve the "networking...
Peach is simply further proof of how difficult it is to build a wide user base. So here comes Peach. No, not the fruit or a juicier version of Apple but (yet another) app that is...
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If you want to get full employment, you need to think again about inactivity
Many of our assumptions about people outside the job market are fundamentally flawed. If you ask most people where jobs growth comes from they will probably point to reductions in unemployment, that...
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Toilet or lavatory? How the words Britons use betray our national obsession...
Sixty years on from Nancy Mitford's Noblesse Oblige, how has the language of class evolved? Few things are as British as the notion of class – and little betrays it as effectively as how you speak and...
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If the Prime Minister is worried about families, he needs to pay more...
David Cameron's renewed attention on early years is a good start. For a parent, deciding which school their child goes to can feel like one of the biggest early decisions they make about their...
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Is the junior doctors’ strike the first strike ever to be supported by the...
It’s complicated, but no. Junior doctors are on strike, and the suggestion has been flying around that this event marks the first time in history that the Labour Party has supported a strike. But this...
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What killed the BNP?
It's not extinct, but it might as well be. The British National Party is not quite dead yet. On Friday, the Electoral Commission announced that the BNP had failed to confirm its registration details,...
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Derren Brown: Pushed to the Edge of Credibility
Derren Brown: Pushed to the Edge is doing what its title suggests – pushing Brown’s powers of persuasions to the limits of credibility, for the sake of “edge”. Would you push a man to his death? Could...
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