09/23/2019 - 4:49pm

Who gives a **** about England? A Labour fringe event entitled ‘Who gives a(nything) about England?’ this afternoon answered its own question when two of the four panellists didn’t even show up...

Who benefits from slavery reparations?

Mary Harrington

The strange phenomenon of MAGA evangelicals The term ‘evangelical’ has been so distorted by American politics that is meaning is now a million miles away from that of its historical formulation...

Saturday

21.09

‘Community’ hits the mainstream with Alain de Botton You know something has really hit the mainstream when Alain de Botton starts talking about it...

Friday

20.09

Our favourite signs from the #ClimateStrike protest Some of our favourite signs from the climate change protest in Westminster...

Don’t miss today’s good news on climate Amid the Climate Strike protests, real progress is being made towards a low carbon economy – not least in Britain, where we got some more good news today...

New book puts John Rawls in the dock The dominance of Rawls' brand of Liberalism has held back philosophy for decades, according to a Harvard professor...

Thursday

19.09

Osborne sticks it to Dave, with love

A timely defence of “stubborn gladness” Am I allowed to feel joyful? It's an argument I often have with myself. This new book of poems by Christian Wiman helps point to an answer...

Elizabeth Oldfield

You wouldn’t think it, but David Lammy was once a thoughtful MP Lammy’s meltdown over Brexit, his descent into the worst kind of racial politics.

Wednesday

18.09

Tucker Carlson: America’s most important pundit

Report: Anarchists vs centrists is the new Left vs Right

Miranda Green’s tough love for the Lib Dems

Meanwhile in Guy Verhofstadt’s back yard…

Tuesday

17.09

What happened to diplomatic etiquette?

Could the Lib Dems outflank the Tories on the Right?

A dangerous moment for democracy

Monday

16.09

Why’s Verhofstadt bigging up empire?

What’s wrong with the weekend news?

Watch: the lone Lib Dem speaking out against revoking Article 50

Saturday

14.09

Weekend Long Read: Camera Above The Classroom

Mary Harrington

Friday

13.09

Calm down, ‘deepfake’ news is not here yet

Alan Johnson on the dark side of ‘community’

In defence of virtue signalling

Elizabeth Oldfield

Thursday

12.09

Four referendums that were never honoured

‘Left-behind’ communities are closer than you think

Wednesday

11.09

Charles Clarke interview: what we got wrong on globalisation

Sorry Diane, you have to put up with Alan Sugar

Tuesday

10.09

Jonathan Franzen’s lesson for the end of the world

The nation’s twitchers are rising up

Where are our unions when we need them most?

Monday

09.09

Extreme? On all issues but one, the Tories have never been softer.