
“It’s like Russian roulette”: On the road with the First Minister of Wales Carwyn Jones
The only Labour politician in power (above a local level) in the UK discusses his plan to save steelmaking, leadership advice…
ByThe only Labour politician in power (above a local level) in the UK discusses his plan to save steelmaking, leadership advice…
ByA rubbish league, the Southern media, and. . . Mourinho?
ByExhibitionism: the Rolling Stones is upfront about one of the Stones' biggest innovations: the way they sold themselves.
BySteve Jones' new book is an ingenious tour of scientific innovation in the age of the guillotine.
ByMargaret Forster's posthumous novel has much to admire – from its tragicomic opening chapters to the authenticity of its unusual…
ByDown-to-earth coffee, anti-semitism in Labour and Javid steels himself.
ByPresident Erdogan sees the Kurdish east in terms of a rebellion Ottoman province.
ByIt is often claimed the driverless car revolution is imminent. But all the hype obscures more urgent problems.
ByIf he wants to be, Corbyn is safe until the next election. That means he's confident enough to use…
ByWhen medical students enter university, their mental health is no different from that of the rest of the population.…
ByThey, too, compromising to survive, and working within a system whose rules they did not choose.
ByWith Ethereum being taken up by everyone from Microsoft to singer Imogen Heap, could this new cryptocurrency enjoy top-down…
ByUntroubled by history, Rome’s sportsmen and women play their games in Mussolini’s stadiums.
ByIt's my policy, though, to argue about it. Or at least ask for "Hitler" on my coffee cup.
ByHsiao-Hung Pai's Angry White People asks what draws people to organisations such as the English Defence League - and finds a…
ByWhile fans’ eyes are fixed on the songs of the past, artists eye the future - and who can blame…
ByAs the star of trashy but impossible-to-ignore The Word, Christian has almost become a symbol of the 1990s. Now, he…
ByIt is 400 years since Shakespeare and Cervantes died. Together, they defy boundaries of time, and the conventions that…
ByKadare's story of a detective in a dictatorship is a ghost story twice over.
ByThe first two thirds of Audiard's latest film are set up well - so why does it morph into Death…
ByBoth writers were benificiaries of the post-war consensus. Now, Cockfosters and Public Library both make the case - in different ways -…
ByThere have been times when I’ve felt sick to the stomach at what is being done worldwide by “people” -…
ByPlus: welcome to the world of 17th-century feminist sci-fi.
ByUndercover is a pleasingly intriguing addition to the BBC's line-up. Plus: Workers or Shirkers? reviewed.
ByOh look, there’s the latest edition of the New Statesman, and I dutifully buy my weekly copy. It is the…
ByBritish-born "Jihadi John" became one of the most iconic figures in Islamic State's propaganda output. But how did he…
ByThe Global Philosopher gave new meaning to the phrase "a face for radio". But isn't this how we all watch, now?
ByToday's reader of Mihail Sebastian's disturbing, existential exploration of alienation and self-loathing might benefit from footnotes - but the book…
ByIt hadn’t dawned on me that some actors expect their every public utterance to be scripted, and I felt a…
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