As Nick Clegg’s biographer, I have always tried to stay above – or detached from – events involving him, so I can judge them dispassionately. But I can’t help feeling an intense seam of sadness at the news that he has accepted a senior role with Facebook. In fact it...
It was the laughs that did it. They made me wonder whether we actually want to solve the #MeToo problem, or whether we get too much secondary gain from the righteous indignation we feel about being on one side or the other. It’s a serious question, because without the...
Serena Williams’s name will be all over the world’s media over the next 24 hours. It shouldn’t be – Naomi Osaka’s should, as she was a 100 per cent deserved winner of the US Open women’s singles. More importantly, Williams only has herself to blame for what happened...
The place names making headlines in today’s British local election results are Nuneaton, Derby, Swindon and the London boroughs of Westminster and Wandsworth. But perhaps the most significant story is buried in another London borough, Richmond. The headline is that...
I learned a new term yesterday: the ‘Dachau School’. You might be able to guess what it means – I did, and I was right. Unfortunately. I’ve actually just had a double-dose of exposure to the brutality human beings are capable of inflicting on fellow human beings....
It’s absolutely right that we should be scandalised about Oxfam aid workers paying for sex in the places where they were supposed to be alleviating poverty. And the cover-up is in some ways as bad as the original crimes. But the whole debate is missing a vital...
