
For all the uproar among Labour MPs, Jeremy Corbyn is going nowhere
The Labour leader’s weakness among MPs is more than counterbalanced by his strength among members.
ByThe Labour leader’s weakness among MPs is more than counterbalanced by his strength among members.
ByIt was indeed a terrible situation to lose your dream job because of excess baggage.
ByThe screenwriter Abi Morgan explains why Suffragette spurned the story of the Pankhursts to focus on working-class activists.
ByDoes there exist one individual, radio-friendly, incontrovertible moment of Marlon Brando’s that perfectly transmits his genius?
ByThe decision to “Greek it up” for half a year has given the Almeida a bold and engrossing revisit…
ByThe atmosphere throughout this film resembles that last, desperate, twilight hour at any nightclub.
ByPlus Abi Morgan’s new drama River – it should be so good, and yet it is so bafflingly bad.
ByGoya’s sketched faces are haunting islands of humanity in a sea of guarded aristocrats.
ByIt is hard to characterise Andrew Dickson’s Worlds Elsewhere – it is a discursive, rambling, global volume.
ByRay Monk looks at the life of Walter Benjamin, and discovers how he found his calling.
ByA novel of sure-footed storytelling and some fine descriptive writing, Noonday reveals the impact of war through a kaleidoscope.
ByRuth Rendell’s Dark Corners reminds us that, at its best, crime fiction is capable of holding up a mirror…
ByIvan Maisky's diaries from his time as ambassador are important historical documents. If only this new book wasn't so…
ByAnthony Horowitz and David Lagercrantz have produced two crime novels that stick to the tried and tested formulas.
ByWhile SNP politicians obsess about independence – which they like to say is a process, not an event –…
ByWhat makes a piece of music timeless?
ByOn the streets of Ankara, residents wear black cards pinned to their chests bearing the words “We won’t forget”.
ByEverything changed when my eight-year-old daughter, Lotte, discovered Minecraft.
ByPaintings of Thomas Pringle show a pale, elfin man with large eyes. What they don’t show is his soulfulness – and…
ByThere is nothing mysterious or miraculous about the brain.
ByI do trust a reporter will invite Sir George to recite the lyrics of Sufjan Stevens songs such as “A…
ByWhen he’s a white American man.
ByTeam culture can’t be reasoned away.
ByIn England, lit fests thrive, as Auberon Waugh once put it, because writers hate writing and readers hate reading.
By“When you’ve tried everything you can, what else can you do but demand freedom?”
ByLee is perhaps the most intelligent comedian ever to tread British boards.
ByIn 1929, Frances Louise Josephy contested Winchester for the Liberals and finished third.
ByI held the rock in my hand during the crossing, an anchor to Earth that would remind me of…
ByThe private screening industry is essentially unregulated, and causes substantial worry and sometimes physical harm, all in the pursuit…
ByJapan’s shrinking population has produced a different kind of housing problem.
ByThe turmoil created by Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership could help the Labour Party rediscover its purpose. But another source of…
ByWill the SNP collapse under the weight of its own contradictions before it achieves its goal of independence?
ByAsk not for whom the sinkhole gapes: it gapes for thee.
ByIt’s quite eerie observing Kasper Schmeichel in goal for Leicester, playing in exactly the same position and looking the…
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