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Why doesn’t Google autocomplete “Conservatives are...”?
“Labour is a joke. Labour is finished. Labour is scum.” Eagle-eyed Twitter users noticed something odd about Google's search function this week. When searching for a term, Google normally throws up...
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How do you teach psychogeography?
The idea is that the students undertake their own version of a dérive – the aimless drift through the city that is the raison d’être of seriously flippant flâneurs– and document it in any way they...
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Is it a hit? Is she a serious artist? Why Rihanna’s ANTI asks more questions...
ANTI predicts the confused response from music commentators in its own lyrics. Where do you go when there’s nowhere left to conquer? It’s a conundrum that not many face, but Rihanna, who had released...
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PMQs review: Jeremy Corbyn unsettles David Cameron on cancer care
Unable to explain away policy failures, the PM turned his fire on Scottish and Welsh Labour. David Cameron arrived at today's PMQs bearing the scars of the worst headlines he has attracted for some...
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Leader: The new young fogeys
Twenty-two years after Oasis sang, “All I need are cigarettes and alcohol,” the young are abandoning both. Every generation likes to bemoan the excesses and irresponsibility of the young. This should...
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In this week's magazine | Putin's Wars
A first look at this week's issue.5-11 February issuePutin's WarsCover story: Putin’s Wars From Ukraine to Syria, Elizabeth Pond on how the Russian strongman overreached. The New Young Fogeys: Is...
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David Cameron’s EU deal gives Labour its own European dilemma
It's understandable that Labour wants to attack David Cameron's deal, but it risks strengthening the Eurosceptics.“A Tory party drama”. This was Jeremy Corbyn’s withering assessment this afternoon of...
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If Leave wants half a chance, they need a bogeyman
The Remain campaign already has a perfect one in the shape of Nigel Farage. Parents have long been telling their children that if they misbehave, the bogeyman will get them. The bogeyman doesn’t have...
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Slavoj Žižek: The spectre of Putogan
Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan are now officially enemies, but doesn't it seem more and more that they stand for the two versions of the same political regime? The...
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The problem with Dolce & Gabbana’s new “sorry we were homophobic” collection
Lame apology couture. Can a bag be sarcastic? If so, Dolce & Gabbana have gone beyond the pale by creating a “sorry we were homophobic” collection that is nothing short of sardonic. There isn’t a...
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In caving to Google, George Osborne has let Britain down
You can't have one law for big companies and another for the rest of us, says Seema Malhotra. Aggressive tax avoidance by global companies is not a victim free zone. When companies like Google don’t...
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Comrade Corbyn: a morality tale, of sorts
Stephen Bush reviews Rosa Prince's biography of Jeremy Corbyn. Jeremy Corbyn is responsible for the worst meal I have ever eaten in my life. A month after the Islington North MP got on to the Labour...
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The last Rastafarians
“Babylon is not about race,” he says. “It’s about any unjust state or system." Looking over the space where the Rasta Village used to be, it’s hard to imagine that two thousand men, women and children...
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After Spotlight, revisit 2012’s look at abuse in the Catholic Church, Mea...
Spotlight fans interested in a deeper, survivor-led exploration of the extent of abuse in the Church would do well to watch Alex Gibney’s documentary Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God.“If...
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Why we seek out new planets
If you want to know how likely we are to find a ninth planet lurking at the edge of our solar system, it is worth considering hunches elsewhere in science. If you want to know how likely we are to...
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The many awkward facial expressions of Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz has a gift for communicating his feelings, all through his face. Everyone knows Donald Trump is a walking specimen of a Republican gone rogue. However, Monday's Iowa caucus resulted in a...
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Let's make Labour the party of the property-owning democracy
Most people want a home of their own - Labour should be the party to give them one. The most important event for Labour in 2015 wasn’t Jeremy Corbyn winning the leadership election. It was losing the...
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Is Kezia Dugdale's tax rise the beginning of an honest debate about tax?
Kezia Dugdale's proposal rips up the traditional rules of politics - but you've got to admire her candour. The announcement by Kezia Dugdale that Scottish Labour would use devolved tax powers to add...
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Gary Neville's Spanish struggles highlight the problems of restricted...
Gary Neville’s Valencia failure would make fools of us all. Gary Neville is starting to feel the pinch in Spain as he awaits his first league win as Valencia manager. Two months on from swapping a...
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America’s presidential race is the latest exercise against the...
Why are US politicians and others so scared to be pigeonholed as "establishment" figures? The super-charged term "establishment" seems to be the select word for this stage of the US presidential race,...
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