Although mobiles blared in public are nothing new, this crop of headphone-dodging irritants are truly maddening. It’s time to take them on, says Dan Hancox, a writer and editor covering music, politic...

Although mobiles blared in public are nothing new, this crop of headphone-dodging irritants are truly maddening. It’s time to take them on, says Dan Hancox, a writer and editor covering music, politic...

Watching Colombia v Switzerland outdoors with a throng of fans showed me how to improve British spirits, says Dan Hancox, a writer and editor covering music, politics and cities

The long read: Idealising the past is nothing new, but there is something peculiarly revealing about the way a certain generation of Facebook users look back fondly on tougher times

Remember in 2010 when 10 million Brits watched the first ever televised leader debate, and we collectively lost our minds?  We ponder the moment of madness that was ‘Cleggmania’, and the associated ph...

The UK has its own progressive second home and ‘mansion’ taxes. So why isn’t the PM shouting it from the rooftops, asks Anna Minton, a reader in architecture at the University of East London

Makerfield MP had been under pressure concerning thinktank’s commissioning of PR firm to investigate reporters

‘PART WAKE-UP CALL, PART FINANCIAL THRILLER’ (SHAMI CHAKRABARTI) The Asset Class is an equal parts thrilling and enraging work of vital financial journalism, lifting the lid on the rele…

The event has signed up Ye, who has a penchant for antisemitic and sexist outbursts, to be its headline act. It’s not even as if his music is any good any more, says Dan Hancox, a freelance writer foc...

The Spanish PM’s defiant foreign policy line may seem outspoken. The truth is that he is a sound strategist at home and abroad, says journalist Eoghan Gilmartin

Only 3000 people are invited to Davos, home of the World Economic Forum - and you’re one of them! Well, not really. But welcome anyway to this chocolate-box Swiss mountain town, transformed via "the C...

uk rap v the ravey right on rainy fascism island

uk rap v the ravey right on rainy fascism island

The long read: As the police and courts continue to struggle with the legacy of austerity, many people are seeking alternative routes to justice – but it could be making matters worse

Environment Agency rates eight of nine companies as poor and needing improvement

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In defence of the most annoying cyclists in London