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.
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A storm is coming
The new Michael Gove, the female Jeremy Corbyn – and the tempting prospect of intergenerational war
I feel queasy, unsettled. Out of sorts. The reason? Michael Gove is doing well.
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Why the Republican party should split
As the party of Abraham Lincoln devolves into the dark world of Trumpism, how nice it would be if…
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Commons Confidential: Poet of Richmond Park
Sadiq Khan's victory, Nicholas Soames' diet and Grant Schapps flogging houses.
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What we can learn from gravitational waves
Why is gravity so weak - and do black holes emit gamma rays? Gravitational waves are set to shake…
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How English football got rich
Even for middling teams, huge figures are the new normal. Why?
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A tale of three scandals: behind the headlines in Japan
Shukan Bunshun magazine is a conservative weekly which has recently brought down three figures who, in different ways, represent the…
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Ken Livingstone on the party’s plan to stop MPs choosing who stands for Labour leader
The former London mayor discusses the NEC’s push to secure future leftwing leaders, why he hopes “obnoxious” Osborne will…
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Leader: We must defend free debate in our universities
To no-platformers, a campus should be a “safe space”, where people are not exposed to views that they may…
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Creative destruction, Rupert Murdoch and the rise and fall of the Independent
Could the Independent, in going digital, be showing the way for the rest of the industry? Sadly, I think it's…
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Why the rest of the world should get a vote in the greatest reality TV show on Earth – the US election
I've been watching so closely, I am now able to tell Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio apart almost 50 per…
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Performance art is a story of falling in love with the lens
A new exhibition at Tate Modern invites us to explore the ways we play for the camera.
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The SNP’s plan for the May election is to be the insurgency against its own incumbency
The American elections are mesmerising - but if it’s breathtaking, eye-watering campaign chutzpah you're after, look to Scotland.
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Leicester City have revived the Premier League by reconnecting with sport’s origins in play
At times during my cricket career, it felt as though sport had been turned into Gradgrindian pedagogy. Leicester's fearless…
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Withered but not aged: two memoirs from women flourishing in old age
Joan Bakewell and Diana Athill have both written books which prove the richness of work produced later in life.
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Our Kids reveals American class inequality – with has all-too-evident parallels here
Robert D Putnam has created an absorbing sketch of the US, drawn from hundreds of interviews with families.
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I had high hopes for Vinyl – but it turned out to be a festival of dad nostalgia
I can't remember the last time I was so bored by a big-budget TV show. In fact, I only…
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When Ciro Guerra speaks about Embrace of the Serpant, you can hear the magic happen
Normally when people say things like "I questioned every aspect of my existence", it sounds like they're selling something. But Guerra…
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Is it time to scrap the Oscars?
The Academy Awards are blighted by racism and bad decisions. So what would a world without them look like?
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Seven year itch: Rachel B Glaser celebrates the diversity of female relationships
Glaser’s debut is part “post-collegiate” novel, part gender-fluid love tragedy. It is sharp, memorable and ambigious where it counts.
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The Returning Officer: Hastings III
In 1931, Isobel Goddard was the second woman to stand for Labour in Hastings.
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City of Thorns takes us inside the world’s largest refugee camp
Ben Rawlence's new book is an affecting foray into the minds of some of Dadaab's 500,000 residents - and…
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The stage is set for Act II of Jeremy Hunt’s discredited play – The Weekend Effect
We are already seeing the consequences of Hunt's imposed changes, with increasing number of doctors leaving the profession.
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Gregor Hens’ Nicotine is not as addictive as one might expect
Despite his excellent eye for detail, Hens' account is not as persuasive as Will Self's forward.
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What the Green Man can teach us about our place in the world
Nina Lyon's new book, Uprooted, uses the Green Man to excavate a bigger question: humankind's relationship to nature.
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Revisiting Catullus, from political battles to Roman contraception
Daisy Dunn's Catullus's Bedspread: the Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet, alongside her new translations of his poetry, offer a rollicking…
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Hunter Davies on Margaret Forster: What my late wife taught me about football
I first met my wife when we were teenagers, and she was protesting the half-day we'd been given off…
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“From my window, north: winter”, a poem by Dominic Cooper
Knuckled may lie this dark of earth. . .
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The graphic memoirs which show the personal side of history
New books from Shigeru Mizuki and Polish duo Andrzej Klimowski and Danusia Schejbal reveal an understated way to keep…
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I admired Castro’s buttocks, clad in combat fatigues of the finest parachute silk
In 2001, I invited myself to Cuba to see my favourite rock group, Manic Street Preachers, play a one-off…
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The North Water is a bloody, gripping thriller set on board a whaling ship
Ian McGuire's novel is a powerful story which refuses to romanticise the past – in contrast with another new whaling…
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Director Carol Morley’s debut novel joins a rich canon of writing by working-class women
Like her films, Morley's 7 Miles Out is marked by the absence of men in a richly-realised northern culture.
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I had long been tormented by luggage – so I set out across America without any
If I didn’t carry a suitcase, I wouldn’t have the stress of packing. Or that, at least, was the…
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