Ian Winwood
29 May 2026
The case against common sense
Infantilised by a political class that thinks we’re thick, voters are encouraged to engage their emotions instead of studying facts. That’s dangerous
Read the full article28 May 2026
What Andy Burnham’s by-election playlist says about him
Relatable but unadventurous – and why has he snubbed artists from Liverpool?
Read the full article22 May 2026
‘I photographed the Tommy Robinson march – here’s what I saw’
Rollie Kahaani’s photos from populist rallies are grabbing attention
Read the full article06 May 2026
Our Land and a very polite class war
The documentary that asks: who owns the ground beneath our feet?
Read the full article06 May 2026
The hate she gets: Angie Thomas and the book the radical right want to ban
The US author’s best-selling The Hate U Give is being removed from school libraries in America - and now in Britain too
Read the full article29 April 2026
What Malcolm in the Middle understands perfectly about Trump’s America
The revived show’s central message is now clear – that on Main Street USA, bravado beats brains every time
Read the full article22 April 2026
Robert Newman: ‘I was heckled inside my own house’
The comedian who filled Wembley and walked away talks about fame, his disappearing act and his excellent new book
Read the full article17 April 2026
Ozzy Osbourne wouldn’t have marched with Tommy Robinson. Why is Sharon doing so?
Sharon Osbourne plans to join a far right protest in London next month
Read the full article01 April 2026
The Native American punk band MAGA says don’t exist
Dead Pioneers are ferocious – and furious about stolen lands and centuries of being erased
Read the full article25 March 2026
Alan Bennett is not going quietly
Now in his 90s, the national treasure fills his latest diaries with bristle and bite
Read the full article06 March 2026
In defence of U2
Their new EP shows the band can be hackneyed and tokenistic. But they’re on the right side.
Read the full article06 March 2026
There’s nothing clever about comparing Trump to Idiocracy
Stupidity isn't the biggest problem with MAGA – and Mike Judge’s 2006 farce is itself deeply flawed
Read the full article06 March 2026
What the new Peaky Blinders film says about Britain’s modern far right
In a WWII-set plot, the brittle bonhomie of Tim Roth’s homegrown fascist seems all too familiar
Read the full article25 February 2026
The big secret of Small Prophets
Mackenzie Crook’s gentle comedy has a hard edge - and beneath the supernatural, it’s a show that actually understands real people and their struggles
Read the full article11 February 2026
The Sopranos’ Michael Imperioli: ‘The guys in the mob are fans of Trump’
The actor talks gangsters from New Jersey to Washington DC – and why he feels ‘sick’ about the state of his country
Read the full article09 February 2026
How Bad Bunny won the Super Bowl culture war
The Puerto Rican’s halftime show appearance riled MAGA – but impressed everyone else
Read the full article07 February 2026
Trump’s Super Bowl culture war
MAGA opponents Bad Bunny and Green Day will provide the entertainment for the NFL’s big game - and the president is staying away
Read the full article21 January 2026
The wellness scam economy of the algorithm age
Former Newsnight journalist Deborah Cohen’s new book explores how influencer culture and wellness marketing have created a boom market in dodgy health advice
Read the full article10 January 2026
Ricky Gervais is swinging at thin air
His disappointing Netflix special Mortality jabs at straw men and suggests a comedian slipping out of touch
Read the full article31 December 2025
Hogwarts and law courts: the best TV of 2026
A new take on Harry Potter, a Legally Blonde prequel and the latest iteration of the Blade Runner franchise are among excuses not to go out in 2026
Read the full article04 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
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