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Q&A: Why the UN’s Julian Assange ruling is meaningless
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has no legal force in the UK. Why is Julian Assange even in the Ecuadorean embassy? In June 2012, the Wikileaks founder fled bail, walked into the embassy,...
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Ignore the people who say to never meet your heroes: I ended up booking a...
Harold Pinter probably never thinks about the night we met – but I do, often. Combining suburban dinner party, social awkwardness and simmering resentment, it was all rather more Ayckbourn than...
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Beyond terror: how are the Paris attack survivors healing their “invisible...
For many who were present at the attacks in Paris last November, the psychological scars from that night have yet to heal. Caroline Langlade sips on a coffee on the patio of a Paris cafe. She is...
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The changing world of work
As is always the case with challenges such as this, it falls to Labour to make the political case for action. Because inevitably the Tories will revert back to their time honoured answer - people are...
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Morning Call: The best from Gibraltar
A selection of the best articles about politics, business and life on the Rock from the last seven days. Gibraltar has a strikingly healthy economy but the UK is undergoing a series of cuts. The...
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Ken Livingstone says publicly what many are saying privately: tomorrow...
The Shadow Chancellor has emerged as a frontrunner should another Labour leadership election happen. “It would be John.” Ken Livingstone, one of Jeremy Corbyn’s most vocal allies in the media, has...
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Cute or creepy? How romcoms romanticise stalker-like and controlling behaviour
I present to you: a history of Hollywood romance, unromanticised. This week, a new study was published with findings that suggest romcoms can encourage women to be more tolerant of stalker-like...
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What Donald Trump could learn from Ronald Reagan
Reagan’s candidacy was built on more than his celebrity. Trump not only lacks experience as an elected official, he isn’t part of any organised political movement.“No one remembers who came in...
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Beautiful and the damned: a spellbinding oral history of Hollywood
West of Eden: An American Place by Jean Stein follows a specific tribe of people: the beautiful. One day in LA, the showbiz tycoon David Geffen drove by the house that had belonged to Jack Warner, the...
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The murder of my friend Giulio Regeni is an attack on academic freedom
We are grieving – but above all, we are furious about the manner of his death. The body of Giulio Regeni was discovered in a ditch in Cairo on February 2, showing evidence of torture, and a slow and...
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Putting the “savage” back in Sauvignon Blanc
This grape is so easily recognised that it might as well wear a name tag, but many varieties are brasher and bolder than you'd expect. I was once the life’s companion of a man who was incapable of...
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I can’t follow Marie Kondo's advice – even an empty Wotsits packet “sparks...
I thought I’d give her loopy, OCD theories a go, but when I held up an empty Wotsits bag I was suffused with so many happy memories of the time we’d spent together that I couldn’t bear to throw it...
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Letter from Donetsk: ice cream, bustling bars and missiles in eastern Ukraine
In Donetsk, which has been under the control of Russian backed rebels since April 2014, the propaganda has a hermetic, relentless feel to it. Eighty-eight year-old Nadya Moroz stares through the...
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Is there such a thing as responsible betting?
Punters are encouraged to bet responsibly. What a laugh that is. It’s like encouraging drunks to get drunk responsibly, to crash our cars responsibly, murder each other responsibly. I try not to watch...
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The non-fiction novel that takes readers inside the head of Raoul Moat
Andrew Hankinson’s depiction of Moat’s unravelling is being marketed as biography/true crime, but its semi-fictional world is something more complex. In July 2010, just weeks after becoming Prime...
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The Future of the Left
Terms take four to five years, then the Right wins. That - with a few exceptions - has been the pattern of politics in Europe since the financial crisis. Outside the European periphery and in the...
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The Future of the Left: trade unions are more important than ever
Trade unions are under threat - and without them, the left has no future. Not accepting what you're given, when what you're given isn't enough, is the heart of trade unionism. Workers having the...
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Dave Haslam's history of venues makes nightclub walls talk
Life After Dark: a History of British Nightclubs and Music Venues reveals the ghosts of hedonism past.“If these walls could talk . . .” The cliché owes its force to the notion that buildings are...
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The Witness asks whether a videogame should always have explicit meaning
Jonathan Blow's long-awaited game leaves you on a mysterious, abandoned island with no clues about what happened to its world. When you're confused or frustrated by something, you either scratch your...
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“I will kill myself”: the gay Syrian refugee couple who could be deported...
An EU law means the Home Office could decide to force the couple to leave Britain.“We haven't any hope this war in Syria will finish. So now we are looking to another country. We're looking to another...
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