The future of the UK seems perpetually in peril. As Andrew Marr argues in this month’s cover story, nothing is inevitable about Scotland’s breakaway, but London’s complacence is making it more likely. Also in this issue: Jill Rutter explores how we’re coping outside the single market, Eliane Glaser has been horrified by the education jargon being foisted on her children during her time homeschooling, and Miranda France gives her verdict on the new Kazuo Ishiguro.
Not only do most voters have little idea of what an "average" wage is in reality, they also find it difficult to see the link between taxation and their local public services
Right-wing populists have sowed the seeds of doubt in democratic institutions since the referendum. Now, it would seem, they have the British government itself on side
Polling shows over a third of men would want to take it, and research trials are looking positive. It's time to have an honest conversation about the male pill