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Could the success of Making a Murderer ever be repeated?
Making a Murderer makes me heartsick, but it was clearly a labour of love - unlike Channel 4's Manchester’s Serial Killer? I can’t remember the last time I heard anyone say, “I’m heartsick”: in these...
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Is it the duty of companies to minimise their tax bills? No, of course not
Boris Johnson is just plain wrong. Here’s a transaction that did the rounds some years ago. If I wanted some foreign exchange in the future I could enter into a contract with a bank by which it would...
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The forgotten Cecil Parkinson
Lord Parkinson will be largely remembered for his affair. But his organisational contribution to the Conservative Party is his biggest legacy. When most people who were around in the 1980s think of...
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Little earthquakes: In The Outrun, you want to go wherever Amy Liptrot takes you
Redemption-through-nature is now a literary subgenre, and The Outrun will no doubt sit alongside Richard Mabey’s Nature Cure and Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk. In her inventive essay “Diving Into...
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The Wishes of Gibraltar and the Falklands come first, nobody else's
Last week’s Daily Politics programme had Guardian journalist Richard Norton-Taylor saying it was time to hand the Falklands and Gibraltar back to Argentina and Spain. Gibraltarian student Mark...
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Byzantium baked in Surrey: the extraordinary legacy of Mary Seton Watts
She was dismissed as an artist’s wife – or written out of the story – but now at last it’s time for Mary Seton Watts’s big reveal. In 1870, Mary Seton Fraser Tytler, an aspiring artist, made a visit...
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Turning sour: Turkey can’t solve Europe’s migrant crisis
A Baklava shop tells the bittersweet story of Turkey's refugees.*/ You can’t visit Gaziantep without trying its baklava. In 2013 the city’s iconic dish became the first ever Turkish product to receive...
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Move Parliament? It should stay exactly where it is
Love Great Grimsby as I do, I can't argue that the Houses of Parliament should move there. There are a few experiences you expect to have when you become an MP. Taking the government to task over...
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10 unanswered questions from the Beckett Report
If we don't ask the right questions, how will we get the right answers? 2015 was painful for Labour. A winnable election in which we failed through decisions, not destiny, to win. Like 2010, had...
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My brother, president Bernard
Meet the failed Green MP Larry Sanders, brother of US politician Bernie. On 1 February, Bernie Sanders will face Hillary Clinton in the Iowa caucuses, the first electoral battle to determine the US...
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“The world forgot us”: inside the scheme to rehabilitate Yazidi sex slaves...
Baden-Württemberg’s federal administration is alone in providing care for Yazidi women and children who have survived war crimes and sexual violence. Jalia Nawaf held her youngest child against the...
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Labour's right are investigating the wrong defeat
Forget Trotskyism. It’s Leninism that’s killing Labour. “The worse it gets, the better,” Vladimir Lenin is once said to have remarked during the final days of Tsarist rule in Russia. Lenin believed...
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Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale wows the shadow cabinet
The party's frontbenchers were "blown away" by the woman with one of the toughest jobs in politics. When shadow cabinet ministers left this morning's meeting there was only one subject they were...
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What the saga of a boyband’s break-up (and patch-up) tells us about Japan
The boyband SMAP has been an important social binder in a nation that prides itself on its sense of community and homogeneity. In the early days of the new year, Japan has been gripped by a sense of...
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What do Donald Trump fans read?
Thanks to the internet, it is possible to see what books people who gave Donald Trump’s manifesto Crippled America a five-star rating also enjoyed. We’re only days away from the Iowa caucus, when the...
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In Julian Barnes’ The Noise of Time, Shostakovich is chopped up and hemmed in
Julian Barnes’ latest novel is an attempt at the crystalline, obliquely passionate historical novel as practised by Penelope Fitzgerald. At first Julian Barnes’s new novel, a meditation on the career...
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Jeremy Corbyn's Calais trip shows why he's the right man for Labour
Under Corbyn, Labour is no longer constrained by what is politically possible. Tony Benn once explained that politicians fall into one of two categories: weathervanes or signposts. The weathervane...
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Han Kang’s Human Acts chronicles the tragedy of ordinariness violated
Human Acts deals with the obliteration, both physical and psychic, of hundreds of its own citizens by the South Korean regime in the early 1980s. The essential quality of human extremity is its...
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Mass murder by muddle: a new history of the Holocaust
An immense posthumous work from the historian David Cesarani shows that Nazi policies were often “confused, contradictory, half-baked”. Last October, the historian David Cesarani died of a heart...
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It's three minutes to midnight – but what is the Doomsday Clock, and should...
The Doomsday Clock tracks the greatest threats to mankind, from nuclear war to climate change. Today, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has published an update on their "doomsday clock", which...
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