The fiction of Gwendoline Riley ruthlessly depicts the fragile tedium of broken people who are desperate to be normal.

While scholars have illuminated bits and pieces of this immense narrative, Beckert’s massive volume brings it together with impeccable authority and perspicacity.

Waiting and walking in lines (queues) can create unexpected air currents that can either heighten or suppress infection risks.

Jonathan Portes analyses the latest ONS immigration statistics. He argues that net migration has dropped significantly, but that this will expose the...

Jonathan Portes analyses the latest ONS immigration statistics. He argues that net migration has dropped significantly, but that this will expose the...

Hungary’s new “transparency” bill threatens civil society, free speech & EU values. Transparency International urges urgent EU action.

A hundred years from his birth, the activist’s views on race, identity, capitalism and slavery retain a divisive currency

Podcast Episode · Wisdom of Crowds · 17/05/2025 · 1h 15m

While mortality from cancer has decreased, deaths from accidents and poisonings have risen, research finds The UK is becoming “the sick person of the wealthy world” because of the growing number of people dying from drugs, suicide and violence, research has found. Death rates among under-50s in the UK have got worse in recent years compared with many other rich countries, an international study shows. Continue reading...

The university said it has no confidence in a widely circulated paper by an economics graduate student.

More than half of people who voted Labour in July say they are considering switching to the Liberal Democrats or the Greens at the next general ele...