Tracy Brabin Q&A: “I’d like to be part of Boudicca’s tribe. In my version, we’d win“
The Labour MP and former actor talks female empowerment, The Partridge Family and remembering her predecessor Jo Cox.
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Corbyn: revenge of the rebel
I was at the theatre, but it was no act when a pimp threatened to beat me to a pulp
“Step outside,” he spattered in my face, “and we’ll settle this right now!”
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Had I talked James out of a cancer screening? If he’d gone, might it have been caught?
It was difficult not to feel disquieted reading my notes.
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The latest train-wreck biopic misses the point about Whitney Houston
Whitney: Can I Be Me fails to investigate properly the very thing she brought to the table – the music.
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“Here’s the nightmare scenario,” the dentist said, and I stiffened in the chair
“Jesus Christ, I thought you were talking about my teeth.”
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The place felt oddly remote and slightly cold – and there was a suitably eerie explanation
It was as if I’d stepped out of the sun into shadow.
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A chat with Tennessee Williams that ultimately sounds more like jazz than words
In audio from 1959, Frankly Speaking quizzes the playwright on his Mississippi childhood.
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Slack Bay mixes slapstick, social commentary and cannibalism
Even by Gallic standards of nose-to-tail eating, this film is extreme.
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What I love about Fearless is its messiness
Its heroine's frantic and complicated life, and her relish for every single one of its constituent parts, feel so wonderfully…
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Veils, switched identities and political prisoners in Salomé
Two very different interpretations of Oscar Wilde's play.
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Wastwater
A new poem by Matthew Hollis.
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Anything Is Possible explores the puzzling complexity of relationships
The lives in Elizabeth Strout’s new novel are prisms, held up to the light and flashing out an infinite…
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What the poet saw: the extraordinary life of Czesław Miłosz
Andrzej Franaszek's biography captures the Polish writer's complexity and darkness.
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Creature discomforts: is Borne an animal, a person or a weapon?
Author Jeff VanderMeer imagines a super-advanced biotech bear.
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An examination of hegemony and power in The H-Word
Perry Anderson's book asks whether dominance is based on consent or coercion.
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Entertaining the masses: The Uses of Literacy 60 years on
How Richard Hoggart's poor upbringing informed his classic book.
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Where are we now? After the election, writers reflect on what happens next
From Armando Iannucci and Rowan Williams to Germaine Greer and Melvyn Bragg.
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It’s now all about Jeremy: Labour MPs on the way forward
After the party's surprising revival, the mood among its ranks is transformed.
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Labour’s populism for the middle classes
Jeremy Corbyn has consolidated a bourgeois capture of the party begun by Tony Blair.
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Why Jeremy Corbyn is a new leader for the New Times
In an inspired election campaign, he confounded his detractors and showed that he was – more than any other…
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Uncharted waters
Theresa May will cling on, but the election result changes everything. Brexit and the future of both great parties…
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Labour has shown what unity can achieve
We must focus on our real enemies.
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Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale’s quiet victory
What happened on election night, she believes, was "the sweet spot between being pro-Union and anti-austerity".
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Commons Confidential: lunching with losers
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The DUP has gone from party of protest to party of power
The DUP may be the ugliest of brides for the Conservative Party but its MPs are not a danger to…
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How an ex-sprinter inspired a cult of athleticism that helped make India the world’s best cricket team
It's about training smarter, not just harder.
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Like Rocky Balboa, Jeremy Corbyn might not have won – but he sure went the distance
He achieved his underdog’s moment at the top, even if that top wasn’t quite the summit.
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Thanks to social media, ordinary people can now influence elections more than tabloids
The Conservatives spent £1.2m on online adverts – but the internet came up with anti-Theresa May memes for free.
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The consensus is that there must be an orderly transition – but Theresa May is finished
Most MPs seem to favour a final choice between a Brexiteer and a Remainer.
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Ruth Davidson was the one winner in a room of losers. Why shouldn’t she be Conservative leader?
“She is philosophically a Tory version of Tony Blair,” says one ally.
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Britain sold its stake in Europe at the bottom of the market. The continent is spiralling back
The populists are not defeated and the EU is still fractured, but tentative optimism is taking hold.
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The sweet illusion of victory, Corbyn’s bungs, and what Putin could have done to repay Labour
Peter Wilby's First Thoughts.
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Basking in a surprise success, Corbyn’s team is planning for victory next time
"He’s shown he can win, and that’s enough for me."
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The rebel’s revenge: Corbyn has created the conditions for Labour to win again
These are new times, as we keep saying. Now to try to understand them.
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