The life of Pi
How the gaming prodigy David Braben and his friends invented a tiny £15 device that became the biggest-selling British…
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American carnage
The working class revolts
In the spirit of William Cobbett, a young writer travels by bicycle through Britain’s former industrial heartlands before and…
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Goodbye to the liberal era
How identity politics replaced class and the personal became political.
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The UK can’t avoid dealing with Donald Trump – but we must engage intelligently
There’s no point pretending there’s a smoother path for Britain that skirts around Trump’s White House.
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Will Ukip soon have as many daily papers supporting them as the Labour Party does?
This week in the media, from Sarah Sands’s sauciness and a farewell to Alexander Chancellor to why size matters…
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Returning to Prague, a brush with Nazi history and the rise of Czech populism
My week in Prague sent me back to the past, from shooting Amadeus to my own Catholic upbringing.
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Hutton’s Unconformity, Siccar Point, Berwickshire, Scotland
“The day feels infinitely long. We’ve come here / for this.”
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High art in the Home Counties
Compared to the work of their Sussex contemporaries, the paintings of the Bloomsbury Set look even more threadbare than…
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Leader: Engage but beware
When it comes to Donald Trump, the UK government can't afford to be passive.
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The banality of Trumpism
Is the “Muslim ban” the brainchild of a chaotic narcissist or a budding authoritarian?
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What Donald Trump learned from Hugo Chávez
From firing contestants on television to the way they harness voters' dissatisfaction, the president have more in common than…
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Commons Confidential: Labour’s bull’s eye
Charlotte speaks, a Colonel drinks, and John Gwynne provides a pointed metaphor for Labour's troubles.
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Who is Benoît Hamon?
The pundits rate his chances at winning the French presidency as even smaller than his stature, but Little Ben…
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The company of wolves: hunting an ancient predator in the Paris commuter belt
When I say that I intend to go into the forest to search for the wolves, the tourist office…
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At the African Cup of Nation, football is overshadowed by political unrest
In Gabon, the current political football is the sport itself.
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Where are all the women economists?
The winner of the Virago/New Statesman Women’s Prize for Politics and Economics explores how economics views the world through male…
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Why our healthcare crisis won’t be over anytime soon
The disastrous effects of “Martini health care” – any time, any place, anywhere – are made worse by a…
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Smoking kills – and now that Trump is president, I don’t care
I smoke in honour of the orange president, even as tobacco companies try to make me quit.
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“I’m happy to be the marine lying on the barbed wire“: Ang Lee’s life on the front line of cinema
From CGI adventures to directing in a second language, Lee is no stranger to risk-taking. What's next for the…
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Did a lack of empathy cause both Brexit and Trump?
Since Barack Obama declared that America has an "empathy deficit", empathy has become a political buzzword. But is it…
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“Official suppliers“ of ice-cream? How football advertising got out of hand
Man United, Man City, Chelsea, Spurs, Arsenal – they all proudly proclaim the names of their official suppliers of…
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Ghost grapes in the walls of ancient Paris
Nina Caplan takes a walk through the rich viticultural history of the French capital.
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“I’m rusting away because of BBC management“: Danny Baker rages on 6 music
It's clear is that The Sacking was, in fact, a double hit for Baker, and losing his job was the least…
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What cats can teach us about how to live
We should celebrate the solitary hunters among us.
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In 2014, a white cop shot a black teenager – and Black Lives Matter came to life
They Can’t Kill Us All is a courageous chronicle of how police violence sparked a political movement.
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Another Brooklyn proves that friendship can mean just as much as romance
Jacqueline Woodson’s beautiful new coming-of-age novel reminds us that it is not just our romantic relationships which define us.
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The husky that weaned its owner off booze – and the woman with cash in her skirts
I've seen two uplifting stories of beating addiction, each as unusual as the other.
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Kiln me softly: why Great Pottery Throw Down is the new, surprisingly moving, Bake Off
I wasn't expecting BBC2's pottery competition to make me so emotional, but it did. Plus: Francis Bacon: a Brush With…
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