Do we have a political writer in Britain to match Chris Hedges?

Until recently, Bollywood had a serious make-up problem

The myth of Tory fiscal responsibility

After the first Labour Party leadership debates yesterday, I saw a comment in a Facebook…

London is slowly losing its character as history is expunged and communities erased

The incisiveness of John Berger at 90

I am reading John Berger’s latest collection of essays. Pieces? Sketches? Vignettes? The…

Six books to help explain how we got here

Trump and his scary entourage may appear to be some sort of anomaly. They’re not. They…

Have you ever seen such a tired looking advertisement?

The naming of the intolerable is itself the hope

We live in times that are creeping dangerously towards the intolerable. Not merely ‘interesting’, as the Chinese saying has it.

My post’s title comes from a passage in John Berger’s and our faces, my heart, brief as…

The Tories are finally destroying the NHS; it’s time to get angry