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Beautiful minds: the sometimes brutal history of treating autism
After decades of misguided attempts to “cure” people with autism, neurodiversity champions want to celebrate their difference and refocus on supporting them better, a principle that extends from the...
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Will Labour’s hawks allow Cameron to overcome the Tory doves on Syria?
Upwards of 30 Labour MPs would be prepared to defy the anti-war Jeremy Corbyn and support military action. For decades, British foreign policy has been underpinned by a bipartisan consensus. Both the...
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Margaret Drabble: what kind of a feminist is Elena Ferrante?
The Story of the Lost Child is the final instalment in a literary phenomenon. But what does its elusive author really believe? The fourth volume of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet brings her...
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Who will be Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow chancellor?
Fellow left-winger John McDonnell has long been the favourite but Angela Eagle and Owen Smith are being tipped by MPs. Ahead of his likely election as Labour leader on Saturday, Jeremy Corbyn has been...
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The Great British Bake Off: a life lesson in confidence and defeatism
How the varying levels of confidence of each baker affect their performance – and their fate.Contains spoilers! Week Six in The Great British Bake Off tent brought cheese parcels, lots of soggy...
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Yvette Cooper bests the Sun in an emoji rap battle
The Labour leadership candidate makes a late entry for sassiest contender. It may be too late to swing the Labour leadership, but that hasn’t stopped Yvette Cooper making a late entry for sassiest...
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What you should see at the London Film Festival
Steer clear of soon-to-be-released-anyway blockbusters like Suffragette and see some of these films instead. Booking opens this week to BFI members, and next week to the public, for the London Film...
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Who will win Labour's London mayoral nomination tomorrow?
Both Tessa Jowell and Sadiq Khan's teams are claiming victory. Unlike the leadership and deputy leadership contests, Labour insiders are sharply divided over who will win the party's London mayoral...
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These glasses let colourblind people see colours for the first time
EnChroma, a US company, has created lenses which (they claim) bring colour to the colourblind. But do they work, and if so, how? The other day, I came across a YouTube video, titled “Seeing color for...
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The NS Podcast #114: Lengthy leaderships
Plus: Abel Ferrara's Pasolini. This week, the Labour leadership contest finally comes to an end and the Queen celebrates a record-breaking reign. Plus, we chat Abel Ferrara's Pasolini. You can...
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Pain is so close to pleasure: Max Mosley on BBC Radio 2
Mosley was coming over as the most clubbable man in the universe. Not a peep from Jeremy Vine. Max Mosley was reading a self-penned essay called “What Makes Us Human?” – also an occasional series in...
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“Extra track and a tacky badge” – doing compilations doesn’t get any easier
That song I abandoned back in 1987 because it didn’t sound very good? It still doesn’t sound very good. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks living in the past. And all because I’m about to release a...
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Commons Confidential: Corbyn's past putsch
Commons Confidential is back - and it's just in time for the Labour leadership result. . . The Chipping Norton set won’t be re-formed. David Cameron, I hear, has been advised to give no second chances...
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My Sarah Palin badge said, “Read my lipstick. Drill now.” I wondered if David...
Pictures of Palin were everywhere. Sexily posing with animals she’d killed. Her appeal, people kept telling us, was that she was “normal”. Is anyone surprised that Sarah Palin has re-emerged saying...
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Imitation game: sex, violence and religion in a big-screen biopic of Pasolini
The film shows how Pasolini located spiritual salvation in unremarkable lives. In his varied career, Willem Dafoe has played Jesus Christ (in The Last Temptation of Christ) and the Nosferatu actor Max...
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Finally, refugees are in the limelight. How do we help them once the news...
When the lights go out, and the word “refugee” once again becomes unpopular, unsexy and uninteresting, what will happen then? Being a refugee has never been sexy, interesting or something to brag...
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Revealed: the Tory plan to privatise even more of our railway network
Quietly, the Conservatives are pushing ahead to put ever larger sections of Britain's rail network into private hands, says Lilian Greenwood. Four months after the election, any lingering hopes for a...
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Is Britain facing a crisis of loneliness among the old?
Loneliness among the elderly is, on one level, a manifestation of the atomisation, anonymity and hyper-individualism that characterises British society in the twenty-first century. In the course of...
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Call-Me-Deity Cameron, terror by royal appointment, incompetent Isis and the...
Before we trust Cameron on drone strikes, we should try to establish some facts. These are hard to come by. The Daily Telegraph headline was categorical: “RAF kills British jihadists in Syria to save...
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Watch: Benedict Cumberbatch on charity single video #Helpiscoming for refugees
The actor has recorded the introduction to a charity single for the refugee crisis – a re-release of the song Help is Coming by Crowded House. Save the Children is releasing a single to raise money...
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