Eleanor Longman-Rood
21 November 2025
Nathan Gill, the tip of a much bigger iceberg?
When it comes to Russian interference, Bill Browder, the US investor and prominent anti-Putin activist, believes the media has barely scratched the surface
Read the full article24 October 2025
“We need to understand that the good guys rape”
When philosopher Manon Garcia went to the Gisèle Pelicot trial, what struck her most was the defendants’ sheer lack of remorse. If we can’t change this, she asks, can we live with men?
Read the full article15 October 2025
Can we get Jack Kerouac’s America back?
Ebs Burnough’s new documentary, Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation, wants you to believe that we have more desire to communicate than social media will lead you to believe
Read the full article27 September 2025
Could Obama restore my hope in politics?
Hosted by David Olusoga, the former president tackled everything from AI to political violence. The only elephant in the room was Donald Trump
Read the full article13 August 2025
Our picks of the week: How to fix asylum, the return of God and cricket
Our digital editor’s weekly highlights from the magazine
Read the full article06 August 2025
The weekly highlights: The trial of Benjamin Netanyahu, MAHA and the rise of silly season
Our digital editor’s weekly highlights from the magazine
Read the full article18 June 2025
The curious case of Gen Z’s Handmaid’s Tale
Thirty years after it was first published to indifference, Jacqueline Harpman’s I Who Have Never Known Men is a literary sensation
Read the full article30 January 2025
Dominic Grieve and Caroline Lucas: “We need to fight Farage – and Faragism”
Five years after Britain left the EU, the co-presidents of European Movement UK believe the country needs to begin a serious discussion about rejoining – but Farage, and his Tory admirers, are getting in the way
Read the full article25 January 2025
How a British conductor found the lost music of Auschwitz
There were at least six orchestras at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Eighty years after the camp’s liberation, most of their music has been lost to history. Can conductor Leo Geyer change that?
Read the full article11 January 2025
How We Live in Time gets cancer right
John Crowley's beautiful film doesn't shy away from the gut-wrenching reality of cancer, instead it embraces it
Read the full article20 November 2024
Else Lasker-Schüler, the poet who defied the Nazis
The Jewish German writer antagonised Hitler’s regime with every action she took. To me, she was also family
Read the full article30 October 2024
The B-word the Budget will ignore
Rachel Reeves will neglect the fact that Brexit and being outside of the single market costs the UK “more than £40 billion a year”
Read the full article25 October 2024
“My life has been screwed”: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s fight goes on
Over two years after her release, the former detainee on stolen time, hostage diplomacy and the lessons to be learned from her case
Read the full article16 October 2024
Why can’t Kamala Harris win over the female vote?
The vice president went on the Call Her Daddy podcast to reach out to her core support – but why does she need the help?
Read the full article29 September 2024
A woman’s right to food
Many shows come with a content warning, but the poignant and bold My English Persian Kitchen comes with an allergy warning
Read the full article17 August 2024
Could you beat Usain Bolt?
One in four Brits believe they could qualify for the 2028 Games if they started training today. It’s endearingly delusional
Read the full article27 July 2024
Vlad Ilich laughs away the pain
Nato and chess aren’t traditional topics for stand-ups. But North Macedonian comedian Vlad Ilich makes it work in three languages
Read the full article03 July 2024
Dora Maar: more than a muse
A new novel that reimagines art’s most toxic relationship and reintroduces the photographer and artist’s legacy to the world
Read the full article05 June 2024
Starmer vs Sunak: what about the young?
The poor format with two bickering leaders did little to win over younger voters
Read the full article27 May 2024
Ukraine’s Roma refugees are being locked out of Hungary’s healthcare system
A new report by EMMA Association has highlighted the discrimination Romani women have faced after fleeing the war
Read the full article08 May 2024
The routes of Ukraine’s uprooted
Photographer Polly Braden has spent two years following the lives of Ukrainian women and children displaced by Putin’s invasion
Read the full article05 April 2024
Could the UK’s young people get freedom of movement in Europe?
An EU advisory body has urged Britain to rejoin the Erasmus scheme - but its hopes are even more ambitious
Read the full article03 April 2024
Bridging the UK’s gender pain gap
In Britain, women with a health condition can sit in medical purgatory awaiting a diagnosis for up to three years. I’m one of them
Read the full article28 March 2024
Nearly half of 2019 Tory voters want closer ties with the EU, according to new poll
And 17% of those who backed Boris Johnson now say we should rejoin the bloc
Read the full article26 March 2024
It’s a “dark day” for young people: The British Youth Council has closed
A cash crisis and post-Brexit changes mean another blow for the UK’s youth sector
Read the full article17 March 2024
No white flags: Why these Ukrainian women won’t stop dreaming of victory against Russia
Pope Francis may have called for a settlement, but those who have lived through the invasion are standing firm
Read the full article20 February 2024
The illogical war on international students
Despite the government’s best efforts, international students still want to study in the UK
Read the full article24 January 2024
Review: Society of the Snow is worth the nightmares
In JA Bayona, the survivors of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 had the right man to tell their story
Read the full article03 January 2024
Are there any new stories left to tell?
In 2024 producers will take old plots, tropes and characters out for a new spin
Read the full article20 December 2023
A Small Light shines on the year’s TV
The story of Anne Frank is known far and wide, but this was a fresh look at an already well-examined period of history
Read the full article10 December 2023
The Turing Scheme is no replacement for Erasmus
The Young European Movement has launched a campaign urging the UK government to rejoin the EU’s study-abroad project
Read the full article09 December 2023
Christmas drinks just got more expensive, thanks to Brexit
Industry experts are warning that wines are ‘up £3 a bottle’ since the UK’s departure from the bloc
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