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‘P lease help, today one person self dead by petrol because hopeless.” Sally Hayden received the text in October 2018. The Irish Times journalist...
Normally, I’m keen for this column to be widely read. This time, though, I hope not too widely. I’d be happy if it doesn’t catch the attention...
‘I ’ve looked at your website and it says you embrace democracy,” Tory MP and Conservative party deputy chair Lee Anderson said to Graham...
‘I t is designed to meet the will of the British people in a humane and fair way.” So wrote the home secretary, Suella Braverman, and the justice...
W hy shouldn’t working-class people own their own homes? It’s a rhetorical question that has provided the justification for the transformation of...
I n 1996, Diane Abbott wrote a column for the Hackney Gazette objecting to the recruitment of Finnish nurses to work in a local hospital. The NHS,...
I n 1751, the great American polymath Benjamin Franklin worried about the small number of “purely white People in the World”. “All Africa,”...
I n 1956, the radical American sociologist C Wright Mills wrote about what he called, in the title of a book, The Power Elite . America’s elite,...
I t opens with birdsong in the dark. It ends with brightly lit blank screen. In between, we look out from a helicopter, flying across London before...
F rom the cradle to the grave. Once that phrase was a description of the ambition of the welfare state. Now, it is an illustration of how far that...
I t has become a familiar political pas de deux. One side draws an analogy between some current policy or practice and 1930s Germany, as if Nazis...
The welcome and overdue indictment of Vladimir Putin for war crimes allegedly committed in Ukraine confirms his position as a global outlaw. The...
T here is a scene in Marilynne Robinson’s novel Gilead in which the main character, John Ames, a pastor, walking to his church, comes across a...
C órdoba’s mosque-cathedral is one of the most glorious buildings in Europe. I was last there 30 years ago, but the memory is still vividly etched...
‘S ecularism now means a ban on religious people in public life.” “We seem to have ushered in a kind of reverse religious test.” “Does her...
I n January, the BBC broadcast a two-part series, India: The Modi Question , which looked forensically at the role of Narendra Modi in fomenting the...
Much of the thinking behind the counter-terror strategy is false. Expanding its remit and closing down criticism won’t help
Politicians and the media often present policies as moral duties, when they are nothing of the sort
In shifting our gaze from equality, we lose sight of the most marginalised
The writer, who is stricken in hospital after an accident, gave us real characters, not stereotypes
An academic spat over a depiction of Muhammad reveals how the language of diversity is eviscerating its very meaning
Leaked messages show an unhealthy link between social media and state security
Another week and more drownings in the Channel. Politicians’ words of regret are hypocritical: they chose not to prevent them
It has been hailed as the AI program that could spell the end of search engines, but we should beware putting our trust in a machine
New census data reveals a complex emerging society increasingly at ease with itself. Not that you’d know it from our bitter public rows
Universal human rights or cultural imperialism? Divide clouds the debate over World Cup hosts