Ian Winwood
04 December 2025
Olivia Nuzzi’s American Canto: Good book, terrible poetry, worse decisions
The journalist who had an affair with RFK Jr while profiling him writes beautifully. But letting a vaccine-sceptic loon off the hook is inexcusable
Read the full article29 November 2025
Dianarama, the book that exposes the madness of the House of Windsor
An account of the BBC Bashir scandal shows it could only have happened to a family mired in paranoid plotting
Read the full article24 November 2025
Joan Armatrading shows the right are wrong about Birmingham
She won’t talk politics, but her career speaks volumes - and it shows her city is a multicultural success
Read the full article19 November 2025
The 87-year-old author who beat Elon Musk
Joyce Carol Oates’s brutal dismissal of the world’s richest man has enraged him – and reminded us of her own brilliance
Read the full article18 November 2025
Nuremberg is Oscar-bait – but it’s also overblown and pornographic
The film that’s dividing critics and the public has writer/director James Vanderbilt at the heart of its problems
Read the full article12 November 2025
GB News’ American horror show
Bev Turner’s new late-night programme from Washington DC is stuffed with lies. So why am I watching?
Read the full article23 October 2025
What Springsteen knows that Trump doesn’t
Deliver Me From Nowhere shows The Boss doing the work that politicians won’t – and telling the truth about a nation seduced by lies about itself
Read the full article10 October 2025
Thomas Pynchon, the paranoid who got it right
The master’s new 1930s-set novel Shadow Ticket feels less like fiction and more like breaking news
Read the full article08 October 2025
Gary Neville’s detractors are pathetic
The former footballer who removed a union flag is now a target of the hypocritical right
Read the full article07 October 2025
Inside Brooklyn’s battle with Trump’s goon squad
ICE agents have brought fear and loathing to New York City - but the community is fighting back
Read the full article27 August 2025
Emma Monk, the one-woman debunking machine
In an age of far right disinformation, scientist Emma Monk wages war against the prophets of rage
Read the full article14 August 2025
The birthplace of Trump’s vanities
New York in the 1980s was riven by disharmony, corruption and excess. Jonathan Mahler’s new book explains how the city forged a would-be dictator
Read the full article18 June 2025
Kneecap have their day in court
The British establishment has given the Irish rap group the two greatest gifts of all: legal trouble and a moral panic
Read the full article24 May 2025
Is this a hate march?
Or is it simply an afternoon in modern Britain?
Read the full article30 April 2025
What the hell happened to Neil Oliver?
One minute he was the king of cosy Sunday night TV, the next he was on GB News ranting about Covid-creating elites and turbo cancer. What went wrong?
Read the full article06 March 2025
Simon Marks, the Trump truth-teller
The veteran broadcaster’s straight-talking dispatches from Washington DC in feverish times have seen him called the ‘harbinger of daily astonishment’
Read the full article14 December 2024
The film that put Netanyahu in court
The Bibi Files paints a devastating picture of the Israeli prime minister and his family
Read the full article14 November 2024
The Big Apple grapples with another Trump win
New York expected victory for Kamala Harris. Now it’s in a daze, coming to terms with four more years
Read the full article30 October 2024
Belfast and furious: The rise and rise of Kneecap
The Feargal Sharkey-approved hip hop trio are tearing up the world with message-based rap that’s neither hectoring nor earnest
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