January 8, 2020

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

02.01

America has always been a circus Kurt Anderson's <I>Fantasyland</i> explores the US tendency to blur fact with fiction

Justin Webb

26.12

The town that should shame our politicians Once proud Lowestoft has been abandoned to its fate

Paul Embery

26.12

2017: when the US woke up to its drugs shame The decline of the American dream was perfectly illustrated by addicts dying in their thousands

Ian Birrell

25.12

2016: the Great Pivot Year Our correspondent imagines what future generations will make of the year western society turned on its axis

David Goodhart

20.12

All hail Good King Boris He won decisively, but his Government needs to offer something more than electoral success and some infrastructure projects

Maurice Glasman

20.12

Why did a rundown mining town become a safe Tory seat? Before the Brexit vote I visited Rugeley in the West Midlands, a land of badly-paid jobs, poverty... and Tory voters

James Bloodworth

19.12

How I became ‘Tory scum’ The establishment’s reaction to the referendum result pushed me towards the Conservatives

Giles Fraser

19.12

Is patriotism racism in disguise? Forget Cool Britannia — let's celebrate Small Britannia

Mary Harrington

18.12

2011 birthed the mother of all protests Extinction Rebellion, the Women's March and Occupy can all be traced back to the Arab Spring

Christopher Rhodes

17.12

In 2010, David Cameron first fooled the country In this pivotal year, Britain voted for a PR man who ramped up austerity

James Bloodworth

16.12

Does Labour understand why it lost? Corbyn's party finally achieved its ambition to empower and politicise the working-class

Graeme Archer