Anya Pearson interviews Petina Gappah, Zimbabwean novelist and lawyer, whose first book An Elegy for Easterly was shortlisted for the 2010 Orwell book pri...
We are witnessing the most intense wave of public protest in the history of Hong Kong. Why the protests are happening is widely understood: sparked by opp...
In 2019 some 80 per cent of the UK live not at the heart of big cities, but in the suburbs bordering our metropolises. The suburbs are of great psephological s...
Anya Pearson speaks to documentary film-maker and producer Norma Percy, who won the Special Prize for Lifetime Achievement in 2010 for the documentaries she ha...
There is widespread concern about a crisis of trust in society, government, and the world. The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, summed up the mood in a ...
With a further extension of Brexit deadline day now on the table, the future for Northern Ireland – and the Irish Backstop – appears increasingly uncertain. Pa...
Imagine, for a second, a radical right
voter; someone, perhaps from UKIP or AfD, or even the National Rally (formerly
National Front). The image coming to mind...
Catherine Rottenberg’s The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism engages intensively and critically with a group of high profile, heavily marketed North Americ...
2019 is the fiftieth anniversary of the Ely inquiry – widely seen as the first public inquiry into a scandal in the NHS. Since then, NHS inquiries have prolife...
Yet Labour's strategy in the House of Lords has not been adapted to this new context. The 2015–17 Parliament was the first time in history that the Conservativ...
Only
a few years ago, the protection of human rights seemed to be a relatively
uncontentious political objective, a consensual expression of the liberal
values...
Britain’s new prime minster, Boris Johnson,
berates opponents of Brexit for being gloomy pessimists, unwilling to embrace
the golden age that automatically awa...
