World

Bibi's Hitler comments are a useful distraction from present-day problems

Netanyahu's latest controversy covers up his lack of answers to escalating violence

World
Oct 22, 2015
Words

Ahmet Altan: 'In Turkey every writer is at risk'

Turkish writer Ahmet Altan on losing his fear of death and why the sound of his father’s typewriter made him become a journalist.

Words
Oct 21, 2015
World

My friend Jacky Sutton feared no evil

Journalist Jacky Sutton, who has been found dead in Turkey, worked tirelessly to build independent media in Iraq and beyond

World
Oct 19, 2015
Film & Music

Mali's music is louder than war

New film They Will Have To Kill Us First tells the story of Malian musicians' triumph in the face of adversity

Film & Music
Oct 09, 2015
Art & Design

'Our establishment is more threatened by satire than by jihadists' says ISIS in Sylvania artist

Anonymous artist Mimsy, whose satire of western attitudes to Islamic State was shut down by police who said it was "not art", speaks out

Art & Design
Oct 02, 2015
World

A London court will decide who owns Libya’s money

Case raises question of who is legitimate post-Gaddafi government

World
Sep 30, 2015

Podcast: Timothy Snyder

The award-winning historian discussed his new work Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning

Podcast
Science

Big data versus the denialists

US presidential hopefuls may be in denial over climate science, but the Research Data Alliance is working on new ways to improve our knowledge

Science
Sep 25, 2015

Podcast: Matthew Cobb & Alex Bellos

This week Neil speaks to Alex Bellos and Matthew Cobb in the third installment of the podcast in association with 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books

Podcast
Society

Corbyn, Trump and Farage: The Rise of the Paranoid Style

They may seem very different on the surface, but underneath they’re driven by the same fears

Society
Sep 18, 2015

Podcast: Dr David Adam and Gaia Vince

Our tenth anniversary podcast features two more authors shortlisted for the  2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books

Podcast
Art & Design

The housing project in Liverpool that's going to win the Turner prize

How a design collective in London got involved with one of the country's most neglected neighbourhoods 

Art & Design
Sep 15, 2015
Society

Now Jeremy Corbyn is leader, five tests for the Labour movement

The issues the new left-wing leader must tackle immediately

Society
Sep 12, 2015
Words

What we talk about when we talk about pubs

Most pubs are not vibrant community centres: they are places lonely people go to drink

Words
Sep 11, 2015
Society

Why Jeremy Corbyn makes sense in the age of the selfie

Millenials who grew up in a networked age embrace collectivism

Society
Sep 10, 2015

Podcast: Jim Al-Khalili, Johnjoe McFadden and Jon Butterworth

Little Atoms celebrates the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books

Podcast
Society

This crowdfunder project could save thousands of refugees' lives

The People's Armada will buy search and rescue craft to patrol the Mediterranean

Society
Sep 07, 2015

Podcast: Petina Gappah

The Zimbabwean author on her first novel, The Book Of Memory

Podcast
Words

On Jeremy Corbyn and tragedy

To classify events as tragic is to absolve ourselves and everyone else of responsibility

Words
Sep 01, 2015
Society

Being a woman is not a lifestyle choice

George Osborne's adoption of rhetorical buzzwords masks policies that corrode gender equality

Society
Aug 26, 2015
Film & Music

Ken Loach's Star Wars

The social realist space opera George Lucas wishes he'd made

Film & Music
Aug 28, 2015

Podcast: John Higgs

We talked to author John Higgs about the big ideas that shaped the 20th century

Podcast
World

Migration from west Africa to Europe is bound to increase. 'Tougher border controls' are not the answer

European governments need a more flexible approach to immigration, but no politician is willing to say so

World
Aug 25, 2015
Art & Design

Why architects are thinking big over small designs

Star architects are downscaling their plans in the new trend for microhousing

Art & Design
Aug 24, 2015
Society

The dangerous allure of victim politics

In our eagerness to tackle inequality, we run the risk of fetishing its victims

Society
Aug 21, 2015

Podcast: Michela Wrong

The renowned foreign correspondent talks about her first novel, Borderlines

Podcast
Society

This is either the beginning of Labour or its end

Even if Jeremy Corbyn loses the leadership race, the movement has fundamentally changed

Society
Aug 18, 2015
Film & Music
Society

'Escape From ISIS' shows the full horror of the group's abuse of women

Little Atoms to host screening of powerful documentary that adds visual, human layer to Islamic State atrocity stories

Film & Music
Society
Aug 17, 2015
Society

Britain should counter Islamic State's grooming of girls with some lovebombing of its own

Intelligence services are masters at manipulating people's loyalty

Society
Aug 17, 2015
Society
Words

Why are we so afraid of teenage girls?

From Judy Blume to Diary Of A Teenage Girl, stories of girls' sexuality make censors squeamish

Society
Words
Aug 13, 2015