Margaret Hodge
Jeremy is back, sort of
With Labour facing massive legal bills, Corbyn’s return to Labour is a less explosive risk than expelling him
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Imaginary friends
The idea of a synthetic companion that knows everything about you goes well beyond friendship
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
Trump’s Bitcoin Boom
The UK should clarify its stance on the leading cryptocurrency sooner rather than later
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics