In a single day, I saw the best and the worst of Pakistan
From Mughal wonders to a modern atrocity.
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The terror trail
Thomas De Quincey and the deadly rivalries of nineteenth-century magazines
How an opium-addicted celebrity emerged from the fraught world of editorial double-dealing.
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Going south: a necessary, if not perfect, debut novel from Kate Tempest
The Bricks That Built the Houses by Kate Tempest is an elegy for a London seen from south of the…
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Leader: The age of hyper-terrorism
In an open society, there is a delicate balance between the competing claims of liberty and security - so…
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The politics of income tax – and why George Osborne has set traps for the SNP and Labour
The Politics Column.
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The sad slide of the American middle class
It’s one of the stranger verities of US politics: the way that so many members of the beleaguered working…
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Part human, part virus – what do we really know about DNA?
For all our progress, the mechanisms of life remain stubbornly elusive.
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Yes, Trump hates women – but they hate him right back
If Donald Trump’s casual sexism makes him an icon to men who feel robbed of their birthright, female voters…
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At the Independent leaving do, some ex-editors were looking surprisingly cheerful
The Indie’s cheerful mourners, teachers’ colour pens, and why the Tories will spoil your dinner.
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Commons Confidential: Doppelgänger defect
“Why did Nick Clegg cross the road? Because he said he wouldn’t.”
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Is there something peculiarly British about Asbo-worthy behaviour in the theatre?
All the world’s a stage . . . and many are the fidgets entertaining themselves round it.
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For refugee women in Germany, solidarity is non-negotiable
These women are trying to eke out an existance in the no-man's land between the Islamists and far right…
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America’s fascist justice system – and the virtues of Donald Trump?
Most Americans are as offended by Donald Trump as most civilised foreigners are. But few foreigners are aware of…
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Why did European intelligence agencies fail to stop the Brussels attacks?
Almost all of the recent terror attacks in Europe were carried out by our own people. So how can…
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Here’s why nothing – and no one – can stop me running up and down escalators
It’s official: standing on busy escalators is faster than walking up (or down) them.
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My windpipe was blocked. I couldn’t speak but my mind was screaming
Luckily, my fellow diners were doctors.
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Two poems: “Corvids” and “Starlings”
New poetry from John Kinsella.
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My mum was always worried about people breaking in – even when she needed it
“But the thing is, Mum,” I used to say, “one day you could be lying on the floor, and…
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The Returning Officer: Easter Rising
Winifred Carney was one of two female candidates for Sinn Fein at the 1918 election, finishing third at Belfast…
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Can a film work in a single, unbroken shot? Victoria shows it can
In avoiding a single cut, Sebastian Schipper’s thriller allows the actors to relish building a performance chronologically.
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To any young men embarking on love: beware what you can do, by doing nothing at all
And, on top of everything, my local is finally closing.
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In this together: how the Lib Dems battled to restrain the Tory monster
Peter Oborne takes on David Laws’ Coalition: the Inside Story of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government – an account of…
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In every beach bar on the planet, there’s a lone man watching the Prem
In the four different places I stayed, on Saturdays and Sundays, I was able to walk to a sports bar…
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Why Sooyong Park went in search of the Siberian Tiger – and what he found
At the heart of The Great Soul of Siberia is not a fear of snapping jaws, but of a broader, deeper…
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Sake: a spirit made from the spit of ancient virgins
Around the solid centre of the rice kernel, mystery builds.
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Rowan Atkinson as a French Detective? It’s as weird as it sounds
Maigret Sets a Trap and The A Word reviewed.
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On Radio 1’s Early Breakfast Show, we meet Pete “the Bread“
All presenters try to get the best from the public - but it's harder at 4am.
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Blood relations: how to live with a killer in the family
Marina Benjamin probes the stories of the Columbine killers and the Unabomber through A Mother’s Reckoning by Sue Klebold…
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Thomas Piketty and Yanis Varoufakis on debt, democracy and the Eurozone
Simon Wren-Lewis reviews new books from the two "rock star" economists.
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Tristram Hunt: Leaving the EU would be a self-defeating dereliction of duty and history
Why Michael Gove, and Vote Leave, are wrong about Europe.
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