Poverty
The poorer I get, the more capitalist I become
‘What a fabulous tan, where did you get it? said one of my fellow lunch guests as we entered the…
A short history of flash photography
A short history of flash photography, by Kate Flint
The Florida Project never sanctifies or demonises and is absorbing throughout
The Florida Project is a drama set in one of those cheap American motels occupied by poor people who would…
Destitution is the new British disease
The welfare state is failing
Growing up with the Little Nursing Sisters
Suffering, wrote Auden, takes place ‘while someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along’. His…
Nicola Lagioia puts the boot into modern Italy
A young woman, naked and covered in blood, totters numbly down a night road. A driver spots her in his…
Calcutta: city of gods and beggars
Writing of his grandmother’s cremation, Kushanava Choudhury reflects in The Epic City that, while his expatriate Indian cousins are separated…
Victor Hugo speaks volumes for the outcast and the destitute
Somewhere between his first and second drafts, Victor Hugo decided to change the title of his great novel from Les…
The therapeutic effects of Modafinil and a mob doctor
Still depressed, or, as Matthew Arnold put it, ‘the foot less prompt to meet the morning dew’, I got out…
Scarcely worth discussing this daft old muddle: Hedda Gabler at the Lyttelton reviewed
Hedda Gabler is one of the most influential plays ever written. It not merely illuminated an injustice, the enslavement of…
There’s a bad smell about Grasse
We’re driving east, destination Grasse. Hairpin bends circling oak-clad hills. Autumn gold and scarlet. Exciting cambers. Blinding winter sunshine. The…
My fascist moment on the ship of failures
There are no roads from the Peruvian river port of Iquitos, but the rich take aeroplanes. Those who cannot pay…
Wales is not an emergency – it’s worse than that
On Monday 25 July we climbed Cader Idris. No particular reason except a free Monday and a memory of what…
Why can’t we see that we’re living in a golden age?
There’s never been a better time to be alive. Why can’t we recognise that?
Prince George County, Maryland — among the meanest streets in America
Quick tip, should you ever find yourself alone in the interview room at the police headquarters of Prince George’s County,…
Training the horse from hell
There were moments while reading this sprawling, ambitious novel when I thought I was reading a masterpiece. But at other…
Penury dictates that I find more lucrative work — but I can’t afford to
My adventures in penury land me with two job applications on my screen, one for MI6, one for Sainsbury’s. Do…
The climate change agenda is a conspiracy against the poor
In trying to protect ‘our grandchildren’ from climate change, politicians are hurting the poor. They shouldn’t
The climate summit in Paris will feature a lot of hot air
The delegates who will gather for the star-studded Paris climate summit include celebrities, presidents and perhaps even the Pope. Among…
Dear Mary: How can I make visiting friends realise it is a burden to take them to see the sights?
Q. I am an impoverished artist living in a famously cheap European city, largely for reasons of economy. I love…
The Tories must move quickly to recruit ex-Labour voters. Here's how
David Cameron might not be remembered as the best prime minister in modern British history but he will probably be…
Chairman Mao: monster of misrule
Mao Zedong, once the Helmsman, Great Teacher and Red Red Sun in Our Hearts, and still the Chairman, died in…
Archbishop John Sentamu on why politicians are like men arguing at a urinal
Archbishop John Sentamu is not scared to tell off politicians, across the spectrum
Why are there so many fat people in pictures of food banks?
Were you aware that the famous actor Andy Garcia was born with a foetus growing out of his left shoulder?…
Ukip is in the middle of the most cynical political repositioning ever
I think I’ve cracked it. If you want to springboard your minor political party into the mainstream and take British…
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