Take back the power: Naomi Klein
The rock-star activist and author on how the rise of Donald Trump could startle the global left into finally…
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The Brexit plague
The dream deferred
In the 20 years since China regained control of the territory, Hong Kong has seen its autonomy steadily eroded.…
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The young and the left: would Labour really tackle intergenerational inequality?
Support from the under-40s helped Jeremy Corbyn confound expectations in the election – but why?
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Romola Garai Q&A: “When am I happiest? With my family, in the bath“
The actor talks Aneurin Bevan, dancing to Kelis and wondering whether she should have been a teacher.
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He hadn’t wanted to make a fuss, but Gordon was my sickest ever patient
Everything was a pale substitute for the retirement he and his wife Maggie had planned.
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Ever wondered what Meat Loaf was on about? The musical that unlocks the mystery
“I would do anything for love but I won’t do that”.
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Inside the fridge, the milk has curdled. How did it know it was hot outside?
It may be related to quantum mechanics.
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If you’re uncertain how long it takes to age your wine, ask a descendant of Dante
Sometimes forbearance gets better results, in winemaking as in life.
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“She died of Robespierre”: Hilary Mantel’s intoxicating Reith Lecture
Her voice, on BBC Radio 4, is exceptionally unusual.
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The world’s worst therapist in Gypsy had me reaching for the off button
How did this Netflix series, with its portentous Seventies vibe and implausible plot, come to be made?
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Baby Driver is a hundred-miles-an-hour car chase thriller that’s cut like a musical
The Edgar Wright film's star Ansel Elgort looks like a scoop of vanilla ice cream with a pout.
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The art of Wyndham Lewis is hard to love but impossible to ignore
Spiky and unlikeable, the painter was blighted for years by his flirtations with fascism.
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Yesterday’s tomorrows: Kraftwerk are today less a band than a conceptual art project
Even back in the Seventies, they understood that ours had become a “Computer World”.
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The Lie of the Land explores the complexity of modern Britain through one family
Amanda Craig's novel engages with issues such as the housing crisis and the collapse of the middle class.
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Queer City reveals a long tradition of gender-fluid Londoners
Peter Ackroyd's gay history spans from the Romans to the present day.
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Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish: Tom McCarthy’s essays are both impressive and frustrating
The footballer Zinedine Zidane is granted a recurring role, alongside David Lynch and Gerhard Richter.
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Hold Tight: a witty and perceptive history of grime music
Author Jeffrey Boakye opens with a cascade of rhymes, displaying no little talent as a lyricist.
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Fractured, hidden lives in Neel Mukherjee’s new novel
A State of Freedom grows more urgent and compelling as it proceeds.
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Life after Armageddon: the deep psychological impact of the Second World War
Keith Lowe’s The Fear and the Freedom is an intimate portrayal of how human beings carry on when their world…
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Can “red princess” Georgia Gould escape New Labour?
Events following the Grenfell Tower fire have thrust the Camden council leader into the national spotlight.
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After Brexit, we should just let the UK car factories close
They aren't worth paying for any more.
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50 years after the Summer of Love, why is cannabis still illegal in the UK?
The hippie mission to decriminalise marijuana remains a dream.
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Commons Confidential: Herod in the House
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The Harry Potter generation: why The Boy Who Lived lives on
More than 20 years on, the series’ popularity is showing no signs of dimming.
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The era of the lone tennis gladiator is over – it’s now a team sport
The champion is now a vivid composite of other people’s time and expertise.
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Nicholas Serota’s Diary
The Arts Council England chair on tea with Lord Sainsbury, solving problems with cake, and opening up the industry.
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The DUP scored £1bn for just ten votes – so why be optimistic about our EU deal?
By March 2019, we’re supposed to have renegotiated 40 years of laws and treaties with 27 countries.
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Corbyn at Glastonbury, more Brexit variations, and why it’s too late for goodbyes
What the Labour leader has at present, the party should bottle – a sense of hope.
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Leader: Labour and the Brexit debacle
The party appears to favour having its cake and eating it – yet the dilemma is not insuperable.
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