Ian Winwood
10 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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