January 9, 2020

John Clare, poet of the Somewheres The politics of the Peasant Poet feel unexpectedly fresh and increasingly urgent today

Mary Harrington

08.01

How Trump handed victory to Qasem Soleimani The killing of the Iranian general has polarised the Iraqi Shia against America — and ceded martyrdom to a murderer

Maurice Glasman

08.01

Russia’s brief encounter with the sexual revolution Long before the swinging Sixties, the USSR initiated free love, gay rights and legal abortion. The results were unexpected...

Daniel Kalder

08.01

Lisa Nandy can’t have her cake and eat it The Labour leadership candidate advocates communitarian politics and universalist obligations. That doesn't add up.

David Goodhart

07.01

The war that saved Europe from Communism A century ago only the Polish army stood between Bolsheviks and a severely weakened Europe

Roger Moorhouse

07.01

The poisoning of liberal democracy Ferdinand Mount's <I> The New Few </i> presages a decade destabilised by inequality and incompetent oligarchies

Tanya Gold

07.01

Could the Cummings nerd army fix broken Britain? The 'bad Nash equilibrium' is a good guide to sorting terrible government

Tom Chivers

06.01

Has trans orthodoxy conquered the world? The theory of transgenderism promises salvation to believers and damnation for heretics

Madeleine Kearns

06.01

How Britain created the Middle East crisis The carve-up of the region after the First World War led to the fanaticism and conflict of today

James Barr

06.01

Can the Tories cling on to the Red Wall? The Conservatives need a five-year plan to stop a swing back to Labour

David Jeffery

03.01

What’s the point of civil partnerships? Let’s not pretend that cancelling marriage will eradicate the power imbalances of sexual politics

Giles Fraser

03.01

Will China get stuck in the Afghan quagmire? As the US withdraws after two decades of war, how will Beijing protect its interests?

Mike Martin