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Not Westminster’s Whipping Boys
Less than 20% of the promised levelling-up projects for England have been completed. The problem lies not only with the current government, but with the whole way the UK’s political system is set up,...
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The Untold Histories of Black Gay Britain
Researching Black British history “often feels like a rescue effort, a race against time,” writes Jason Okundaye. In his first book, he narrates the mingled histories of seven astonishing lives in the...
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Critical Theorists Hate This One Weird Trick
We’re living in a world of hurry and shortcuts, of intimacy on tap and just-in-time production. But what’s the link between a flow state at work and a TV monologue to camera? Or between autofiction and...
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The Great Housing Crisis Debate
Why is it so expensive to rent in the UK? Is it because landlords are gouging prices to levels the rest of us can barely afford? Or is it to do with supply: we simply don’t have enough houses in the...
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Colonial Capitalism Has Made Us Sick
Centuries of colonial capitalism have reordered life on the planet and inside our bodies, from industrial farming and the uneven advances of modern medicine, to night shifts, chronic stress and...
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London’s Endless Appetite
London is a foodie metropolis: undoubtedly one of the best places to eat in the world. But eating in London is also, like everything else in the city, shaped by its history as the capital of a...
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Read Some Effing Jameson!
The exhortation to “read some effing Orwell!” is an old chestnut of the online left, whether ironic or sincere, or somewhere in between. But if we’re looking for a writer whose body of work truly...
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Your Neighbour Kills Puppies
In the ’00s, animal rights protestors nearly won their battle to ban vivisection in the UK, shutting down multiple breeding farms that were supplying laboratories with cats, dogs and guinea pigs. But...
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All Of Which Are American Dreams…
George Bernard Shaw once joked that the US and the UK are “two countries divided by a common language.” Can the same be said of their conservatives? As we brace for a joint election year, Eleanor Penny...
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Living Through the Chinese Miracle
No country has ever changed so fast as China. From the west, we see only the dazzling headline figures – 15% growth in some years. But it’s on the ground, in the huge shifts in the patterns of daily...
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The Dolls Hold All the Receipts
The difference between sex and gender is fundamental to how we talk about trans people. But what if it obscures the richness of life outside of gender norms? There is so much more to gender...
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The Right Is Getting Real on Climate. Can We?
The right have ditched climate denial and found something worse. They’re doubling down on the exhaustion of people and planet alike, making us run ever-faster just to stay in place. Can we turn our...
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Whatever Happened to the Israeli Left?
What’s it like to be left-wing in an aspiring ethnostate? Israel has swung hard to the right in the last few decades, with self-described fascists now in government. But a left remains, calling not...
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Where Will Labour Invade This Time?
Was the Iraq War the exception or the rule? Throughout the twentieth century, Labour governments have been involved in some of Britain’s most disastrous colonial acts: the partition of India, the...
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How Labour’s Left-Wing Firebrands Fought Back
It’s easy to think that the Labour left is gone for good. But it’s not so certain. From the 1980s to the 2010s, the Labour left endured almost three decades of isolation and exile. The difference this...
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It’s the End of the Tory Party As We Know It (And I Feel Nothing)
This time next week, Keir Starmer will likely be settling into No 10 with a thumping majority. Yet Labour has largely avoided the question of what they’re going to do with all that power once they get...
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Britain’s Infrastructure Is Crumbling. Can Labour Fix It?
Asked in a recent poll to summarise Britain in a word, ‘broken’ was the people’s top choice. This brokenness is concrete stuff: crumbling bridges, sewage-filled rivers, failing computer systems,...
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Macron’s Own Goal
The French left have played a blinder. Or, at least, the centre-right chaos agent and French President Emmanuel Macron has played it for them. Macron called snap elections, hoping to crush both the...
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Britain’s Radical Right Are on the March
The demise of the Tories isn’t the end of the road for the British right. Quite the reverse: there are many whose extreme right-wing beliefs have been kept on the margins by the existence of the...
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All Of Which Are American Dreams…
George Bernard Shaw once joked that the US and the UK are “two countries divided by a common language.” Can the same be said of their conservatives? As we brace for a joint election year, Eleanor Penny...
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