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For a few months at university, I was in the same social circle as Ghislaine Maxwell. I knew her fairly well. At first, it was fun. Then, almost overnight, I

We could blame the people for spectacular breaches of the lockdown and the major health hazard they present. Or we could see that when millions of people are doing the

Powerful column by @NickCohen4 on the extreme rightwing culture warriors who began their political lives in the deeply weird far-left cult that Frank Furedi built among his students: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/20/the

Hello @BBOWT, I have some questions to ask about your extraordinary shocking support for the Oxford-Cambridge Arc, one of the biggest and most damaging infrastructure schemes proposed in the UK.

Astonishing. This is the medal given to UK diplomats for their services. It depicts a white angel stamping on the neck of a black man. #InstitutionalRacism https://twitter.com/wayne_reid79/status/1273391715546804225 The black man

At the end of my thread yesterday (https://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/status/1273132740142120961), I suggested there was a lot more to be discovered about how Britain's hidden history of atrocities influences current politics. I woke

The pandemic is still raging. The necessary measures are not in place. The government is easing the lockdown to create an impression of progress, but this progress has not been

“The BBC must uphold the highest standards of due impartiality in its news output,” we are told, as it reprimands #EmilyMaitliss. I could buy that - perhaps - if the

From what I'm seeing in public places, lockdown and physical distancing are breaking down rapidly. Hardly surprising when the government tells us that the rules are no longer rules. To

When you consider the defensive rings set up around established power in this country, you begin to question the very notion that we live in a democracy. Let’s list them:

There's a further question in my mind. Why did the Today programme give Mary Wakefield the Thought for the Day slot - supposed to be non-political, and generally reserved for

Without the Guardian and the Mirror, amassing evidence and persistently questioning a government that did everything to stonewall them, Cummings's trip, and the deceptions surrounding it, would never have come