Man vs machine
What does it mean these days to beat the bookie? Many of us like to imagine that winning a bet…
Man vs machine
What does it mean these days to beat the bookie? Many of us like to imagine that winning a bet…
Australian notes
Cheers all round for Andrew Bolt who extracted an apology, however grudging, from the ABC for broadcasting false and defamatory…
Portrait of the week
Home Ed Miliband, the leader of the Labour party, promised that, if elected, his administration would hold a referendum on…
Gove’s friends are out to get him
If the Tories can’t stop squabbling among themselves, they are doomed to election defeat
Children with a severe case of the excuses
How many illnesses of modern childhood are excuses for bad behaviour, stupidity or parental neurosis?
Kidnaps and killings in Cameron’s happy place
The Prime Minister's 'happy place' has become very unhappy indeed
Turn down those token directorships, girls, and tell them you want to be chairman
Plus: The Co-op’s latest crisis, and HMRC’s demon eyes
Meeting the monster
My fellow children’s writers hate the Education Secretary. Now I finally understand why
Lapwing
Lapwing leans against the wind, First hint of changing season Come to turn the soil to stone And bring the…
Teaching’s war on science
There’s an increasing amount of evidence about how we learn.But you won’t hear about it at teacher training college
Here come the dog police
Councils are banning dogs from places they’ve been walked for generations. Here’s how owners are fighting back
Paris
No city really multitasks like Paris, shorthand for romance, culture, fashion, gastronomy and the kind of street life you find…
Delhi’s underbelly
A review of Rana Dasgupta's Capital: A Portrait of 21st-century Delhi. The upper crust and underbelly of India's capital
Adventures in gay Paree
A review of Edmund White's Inside a Pearl. An X-rated memoir of the gay author's 15-year exile in Paris
Lambs to the slaughter
A review of Fred D’Aguiar's Children of Paradise. A fictional retelling of the Jonestown massacre makes you wonder who'd fall for Jim Jones
