Ignore the people who say to never meet your heroes: I ended up booking a canal boat holiday with mine
Harold Pinter probably never thinks about the night we met – but I do, often.
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Putin's war
Comrade Corbyn: a morality tale, of sorts
Stephen Bush reviews Rosa Prince's biography of Jeremy Corbyn.
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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…
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Rhodes Must Fall: In any debate, money talks
“Oriel sold out,” says Andre Dallas, one of the organising committee and a student at St Edmund’s Hall.
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Leader: The new young fogeys
Twenty-two years after Oasis sang, “All I need are cigarettes and alcohol,” the young are abandoning both.
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The Out campaign’s problem is that it can’t agree on what life after Brexit looks like
Without a unified position on a post-EU future, Cameron's opponents will struggle to convince the public.
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Windows of opportunity: Bill Gates on Desert Island Discs
Gates didn't quite comprehend the unspoken contract of Desert Island Discs: come ready to bare your heart.
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Keeping Up With the Khans is let down by its own lack of curiosity
Channel 4's new documentary, which tackles immigration in Sheffield, has an intriguing cast - but fails to delve below the…
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The mystery of Florian Zeller’s paired “puzzle“ plays
The Mother and The Father both show two characters called Anna and Pierre, who both times end up in a…
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The argument against remaking beloved sitcoms in five words: Martin Clunes as Reginald Perrin
The closer Dad's Army gets to its source material, the more you wish you were watching that instead. Plus: Rams.
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Commons confidential: Sunday, Dougie Sunday
Dougie Alexander has been working for Bono since being pumelled in Paisley by student Mhairi Black - but what…
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Google’s tax worries, Oxford’s race dilemma and the left-wing case for leaving Europe
The truth is that many black students looking at the white, middle-class Oxford would justifiably conclude that they don’t belong.
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No, feminists aren’t scared to write about the Cologne attacks
The people who asked why I hadn't written on the attacks weren't really interested in my opinion - they…
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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…
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The Labour right crows about its “electability”. So why isn’t it interested in how it lost to Corbyn?
The factions on the Labour right need to acknowledge that Corbyn won because people sought a genuine alternative.
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How the middle-aged became the hedonists
When they next open a bottle of wine (or three), the parents and grandparents of today’s teens should raise a glass…
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Lock up your tourists: a holiday in some benighted Middle Eastern country isn’t “a celebration of life”
Of course, with Europe’s Mediterranean beaches now becoming de facto Bantustans for Syrian, Afghan and all manner of other…
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Track changes: a history of the railways
Simon Bradley's new book takes us from the train carriage to station signposts, walking the line between nostalgic reminiscence…
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Why are we sometimes so reluctant to enjoy ourselves – even when we’re allowed?
Unforbidden Pleasures by Adam Phillips is a profound meditation on the ways we deny ourselves pleasure.
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Shylock Is My Name brings Shakespeare to the present – but is it too clever for its own good?
Howard Jacobson places Shylock in Cheshire's "Golden Triangle". While thought-provoking, however, it struggles to work on its own terms.
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The ghosts of hedonism past: a history of nightclubbing in Britain
Life After Dark: a History of British Nightclubs and Music Venues reveals the ghosts of hedonism past.
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The Romanovs’ only loyalty was to absolute power
Simon Sebag Montefiore's new book shows the history of a world as gorgeous as it was bloody.
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I can’t follow Marie Kondo’s advice – even an empty Wotsits packet “sparks joy“ in me
I thought I’d give her tidying theories a go, but when I held up the empty snack bag I was…
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Why the class of ’94 still rules British poetry
The message of the 1990s generation - that seeing clearly is not as simple as we think - comes…
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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,…
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The idea that sitting all day behind a desk increases your output is a fantasy
If you don’t trust people, at least make sure that you imprison them, seems to be the idea.
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I organised so much support for Maria, I wonder if I became part of the problem
She began to attend our appointments with a support worker in tow, almost as a symbol of her incapacity.
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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…
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The biggest bastard in pop: how Allen Klein changed the game for music revenue
Fred Goodman's new biography shows the man who made the Rolling Stones and wrenched open the door for today's…
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The beautiful and damned: a spellbinding oral history of Hollywood personalities
West of Eden: An American Place by Jean Stein follows a specific tribe of people: the beautiful.
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