
As the polls spell doom for Labour, do Jeremy Corbyn or his opponents have a plan?
At no point since 1945 have the party's ratings been lower in opposition.
ByAt no point since 1945 have the party's ratings been lower in opposition.
ByI feel queasy, unsettled. Out of sorts. The reason? Michael Gove is doing well.
ByAs the party of Abraham Lincoln devolves into the dark world of Trumpism, how nice it would be if…
BySadiq Khan's victory, Nicholas Soames' diet and Grant Schapps flogging houses.
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ByEven for middling teams, huge figures are the new normal. Why?
ByShukan Bunshun magazine is a conservative weekly which has recently brought down three figures who, in different ways, represent the…
ByThe former London mayor discusses the NEC’s push to secure future leftwing leaders, why he hopes “obnoxious” Osborne will…
ByTo no-platformers, a campus should be a “safe space”, where people are not exposed to views that they may…
ByCould the Independent, in going digital, be showing the way for the rest of the industry? Sadly, I think it's…
ByI've been watching so closely, I am now able to tell Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio apart almost 50 per…
ByA new exhibition at Tate Modern invites us to explore the ways we play for the camera.
ByThe American elections are mesmerising - but if it’s breathtaking, eye-watering campaign chutzpah you're after, look to Scotland.
ByAt times during my cricket career, it felt as though sport had been turned into Gradgrindian pedagogy. Leicester's fearless…
ByJoan Bakewell and Diana Athill have both written books which prove the richness of work produced later in life.
ByRobert D Putnam has created an absorbing sketch of the US, drawn from hundreds of interviews with families.
ByI can't remember the last time I was so bored by a big-budget TV show. In fact, I only…
ByNormally when people say things like "I questioned every aspect of my existence", it sounds like they're selling something. But Guerra…
ByThe Academy Awards are blighted by racism and bad decisions. So what would a world without them look like?
ByGlaser’s debut is part “post-collegiate” novel, part gender-fluid love tragedy. It is sharp, memorable and ambigious where it counts.
ByIn 1931, Isobel Goddard was the second woman to stand for Labour in Hastings.
ByBen Rawlence's new book is an affecting foray into the minds of some of Dadaab's 500,000 residents - and…
ByWe are already seeing the consequences of Hunt's imposed changes, with increasing number of doctors leaving the profession.
ByDespite his excellent eye for detail, Hens' account is not as persuasive as Will Self's forward.
ByNina Lyon's new book, Uprooted, uses the Green Man to excavate a bigger question: humankind's relationship to nature.
ByDaisy Dunn's Catullus's Bedspread: the Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet, alongside her new translations of his poetry, offer a rollicking…
ByI first met my wife when we were teenagers, and she was protesting the half-day we'd been given off…
ByKnuckled may lie this dark of earth. . .
ByNew books from Shigeru Mizuki and Polish duo Andrzej Klimowski and Danusia Schejbal reveal an understated way to keep…
ByIn 2001, I invited myself to Cuba to see my favourite rock group, Manic Street Preachers, play a one-off…
ByIan McGuire's novel is a powerful story which refuses to romanticise the past – in contrast with another new whaling…
ByLike her films, Morley's 7 Miles Out is marked by the absence of men in a richly-realised northern culture.
ByIf I didn’t carry a suitcase, I wouldn’t have the stress of packing. Or that, at least, was the…
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