Latest Features

Rachel Johnson caricature

Rachel Johnson: Is Janet right? Am I an under-achiever?

Rachel Johnson

"The other day, I had the privilege of being taken down by a fellow columnist, Janet Street-Porter"

Joe Hill

Joe Hill: The man who would be King

Steven MacKenzie

Horror writer Joe Hill talks about escaping from his famous father's shadow - and his macabre tastes as a teenager

Brendan O'Neill: Sceptics, have courage...

Brendan O'Neill

"The demonisation of scepticism has returned with a vengeance in the 21st century"

Stooshe: 'Kids are looking for approval from pop groups'

Steven MacKenzie

Alex from Stooshe champions advice from pop stars - and reveals how an innocent shopping trip turned her life around...

Jason Isaacs

Jason Isaacs makes a case for deep-fried Mars Bars...

Andrew Burns

Case Histories star Jason Isaacs talks diet, crap TV, his even worse tennis skills, and the bracing effects of the California ocean

"Universal credit will be a saving that the government makes. It will not benefit the recipient"
"What Big Issue vendors do with the money they make is their own damn business..."
“I’ve given two girls from Emmerdale a cuddle on my pitch”
Police swoop on the homeless to clear “a negative impact” from the streets - as night shelters lose funding
A friendly bear checks out the local neighbourhood in Los Angeles - George Monbiot would approve!
Zach Galifianakis
Hollywood actor Zach Galifianakis showed his heart of gold by stepping in to save an 87-year-old friend from homelessness
A Viking yesterday
Award-winning children's author Marcus Sedgwick says that Viking tales should be reinstated into the school curriculum

Latest Reviews

The National

Malcolm Jack: All rise for the national anthemry

"The National have a shrewd talent for building something rousing out of unlikely components"

Gill Lewis

Gill Lewis: Five books every child should read before they’re 12

"The wonderful characters include the creepy uncle whose hobby is collecting glass eyes"

Mad Men vs The Apprentice

Forget the preening idiots on The Apprentice, Sam Delaney finds that there's two big bonuses to tuning into Mad Men

Thomas Quinn on the American supermoms making medical history

"Kristine changed her son’s life. Perhaps she changed his brain – or at least allowed it to evolve in the way it was meant to"