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Why the junior doctors went on strike - and how Jeremy Corbyn put a spring in...
It's not avarice, but overwork, that drove the doctors to the pickets. In November, a ballot of over 37,000 of junior doctors resulted in 98per cent backing full strike action as a result of new...
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How worried should Jeremy Corbyn be about Len McCluskey?
The Labour leader is on course for a showdown with the leader of Britain's largest trade union. Len McCluskey will warn Jeremy Corbyn not to force through a change of policy over Trident, according...
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The way to save Test cricket? Make it the vinyl to T20’s streaming
A Test match is not just sport, it is a sustaining way to spend the whole day - and it needs to feel like an experience It seems an odd moment to consider rescue plans for Test cricket. Ben Stokes has...
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Watch: government press officer tries to silence a Sky News journalist's...
“Hang on a second, we’re not dealing with this nonsense.” An official from the Department of Health tried to silence a Sky News journalist asking questions about the junior doctors' strike. In footage...
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The "Big Society" is alive and well in David Cameron's latest speech
Far from reducing the size of the welfare state, the Prime Minister is adding to it. What was most interesting in the Prime Minister's speech on Monday was his discussion of the importance of social...
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Truth and reconciliation? The reality is Northern Ireland will have neither
Too many people - not least the British government - have an incentive for the truth to stay buried, says Kevin Meagher. Last November’s deal on resuscitating Northern Ireland’s fractious...
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The roles we play: on the redemptive power of video games
How a fantasy geek with polyhedral dice and no playmates accidentally created a global video-gaming phenomenon. I committed my first act of terrorism in 1997. I joined the group, a ragtag bunch of...
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In this week's magazine | David Bowie
A first look at this week's issue.Issue of 15 - 21 January 2016David Bowie Cover story: David Bowie A tribute to the man who reinvented pop culture, by John Burnside, Paul Du Noyer, John Gray, Philip...
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Think Jeremy Corbyn is untouchable among Labour activists? Think again
People are treating Jeremy Corbyn's supporters as a homogenous bloc, says Leo Barasi. The resignation of four shadow ministers – one of them on live TV – would normally prompt speculation about a...
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PMQs review: Jeremy Corbyn's housing facts aren't enough to give him victory
The Labour leader lacked an effective riposte to David Cameron's "small-c conservative" attack. As often at recent sessions, Jeremy Corbyn arrived at today's PMQs armed with salient facts on his...
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Labour’s attack on Zac Goldsmith for voting with the Tory whip is a terrible...
The Tory mayoral candidate has been slammed by Labour for his loyal voting record. Here is the Labour party’s latest attack ad against Zac Goldsmith, the Tory’s London mayoral candidate, in the form...
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In love and war: the life and work of the Welsh writer, pacifist and soldier...
Morlais by Alun Lewis and Alun, Gweno and Freda by John Pikoulis reviewed.“I want to come home with you, that’s all I want,” says the 16-year-old Morlais to his mother. For years, he has seen her only...
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The death of Daria Pionko shows there is no “safe” way to manage prostitution
The “managed prostitution area” in Leeds has now been made permanent. And yet analysis of it fails to take into account the ever-present danger of male violence. Daria Pionko was supposed to be safe....
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The strangest thing about losing my father is realising my new place in the...
The business is wholly discombobulating, rather like a drug experience absolutely without any of the good bits.“Death has not required us to keep a day free,” Beckett wrote in his monograph on Proust,...
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If it wants to be a force for radical change, Labour must face up to why it lost
Only Labour can build the national movement needed to challenge David Cameron's reforms. But doing so means acknowledging where we went wrong. Before Christmas, a woman came to see me in my...
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When successful investors warn of a global market crash, we should all be...
Profits are so thin that the slightest pothole could cause a crash. This year’s January sales seem to have extended to the world’s stock markets. A week in to 2016, you could buy the FTSE for 6 per...
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No, the $1.5bn Powerball jackpot couldn’t solve poverty in America
Because maths. Tonight's Powerball draw in the US offers the chance to win an estimated $1.5bn, making it the world's largest ever lottery jackpot. There are long queues outside stores selling...
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That Dragon, Cancer proves that games can be an emotional art form
A small videogame about a couple dealing with their infant son's battle with cancer is an emotional zenith for games. After the first five minutes of starting That Dragon, Cancer, my mouth was agape...
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Whatever happened to the march of the makers?
Yesterday's manufacturing figures are bad news for Britain - and it's nothing to do with the global economy. Yesterday morning saw the release of the Office for National Statistics’ Index of...
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Slavoj Žižek: The Cologne attacks were an obscene version of carnival
Were the recent Cologne sex attacks a deliberate assault on western values and a middle-class sense of decency? Who are the “hateful eight” in Quentin Tarantino’s film of the same name? The ENTIRE...
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