Culture
Politics
Tech
Investigations
Stewart Lee
Apr 8, 2026
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11 min read
Reform’s proposed "Deportation Command” would integrate NHS, police and financial data into a single surveillance database. Meanwhile, Palantir has signalled it won’t stand in their way, and campaigners say Labour’s new data law opens the door. By Rei Takver
Apr 2, 2026
9 min read
The prime minister has swept all before him for 16 years. But now his authoritarian facade is crumbling – and a challenger is offering a hope we had all but abandoned, writes novelist Krisztián Marton
8 min read
I’ve known Lebanon for three decades. What’s happening there now is an invasion. This is Gaza 2.0 – and the world is barely paying attention. By Carole Cadwalladr
As a 13-year-old in Saudi, Arwa Haider wore the band’s T-shirts under her abaya. Now a new book and gigs by the duo, and a major exhibition on youth culture, are shining a light on the overlooked power of fandom
7 min read
This week’s top cultural picks – from Jim Jarmusch’s new film to Jamie Woon’s return to music – as chosen by our team of writers and editors
12 min read
What do you do if you’ve been beaten hollow by a Green female plumber and people don’t like your links to Trump? Undermine faith in democracy!
Mar 27, 2026
Artificial intelligence infrastructure is being handed priority access to Britain's overwhelmed electricity grid, pushing housing down the list. But as the US shows, there's an alternative: make Big Tech pay for the power it needs. Report by Nicole Kobie
Feb 13, 2026
14 min read
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-long project that cloaked eugenics, race science and sexual misconduct in Ivy League respectability
Mar 13, 2026
10 min read
Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state secrets. Report by Charlie Young and Carole Cadwalladr
Mar 24, 2026
The Reform UK candidate’s polemic Suicide of a Nation claims to expose a toxic elite leading Britain to annihilation, but my close reading revealed a mix of phantom sources and falsehoods. Then MattGPT answered back... By Andy Twelves
The French film-maker, whose new movie, The Stranger, is out next week, talks to Ellen E Jones about stars, politics, Camus and the Cure
6 min read
The award-winning TV, film and theatre actor shares her latest cultural discoveries
Mar 31, 2026
17 min read
At the Laugharne Weekend festival, Lucia Osborne-Crowley, one of four journalists in the courtroom daily for Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial, talked to Robin Ince about abuse, justice and the ‘rape myths’ that silence survivors
4 min read
The novelist, cook and food writer shares a vibrant dish from her inventive new book
Mar 20, 2026
The chef and podcaster describes the genesis of a new recipe, inspired by his travels in search of Britain’s best food for his forthcoming book
Feb 27, 2026
The chef and #CookforUkraine campaigner shares a recipe for kobete – a celebratory dish from the Greek diaspora on Ukraine’s southern coast
Feb 20, 2026
5 min read
Bestselling British vegan duo Henry Firth and Ian Theasby share a fragrant, nourishing dish with a spicy peanut topping from their latest collection
