Yesterday, Theresa May announced that the Conservatives would pledge to scrap the Human Rights Act (HRA) in their next election manifesto. This has popular support mainly because of one high-profile...

 Maxim Leo's memoir "Red Love: The Story of an East German Family", his account of growing up in East Berlin behind the Iron Curtain, was published in his native language in 2009. In 2011, it won...

Ed Miliband declares "This is what a feminist looks like" © The Fawcett Society In the issue of Red magazine out later this week, a journalist asked David Cameron if he’s a feminist. The Prime...

Ed Miliband's speech to the Labour Party conference on Tuesday attracted some pretty hysterical reaction, especially in the right-wing press and among the denizens of the more unrepentantly...

Justine Thornton, Ed Miliband's wife © NCVO London It is the fate of all “political wives” (and it is always wives, sadly) to be treated like a mannequin by the press. Their wardrobes are...

Do you remember your first week at university? Until recently, I was sure that I had retained a clear, if slightly rose-tinted, picture of mine. Was it nerve-wracking? Yes. Alcohol-fuelled? Yes....

In the first of a new series on this blog, I talk to the American writer David Epstein about his book "The Sports Gene: What Makes the Perfect Athlete". "The Sports Gene" has been seen as a riposte...

How the renowned scientist's quasicrystals attain their “impossible” structure

Once again, the “national debate” over the niqab is filling the pages of our newspapers. The latest discussion comes after Birmingham Metropolitan College reversed a decision to prevent Muslim...

All feminist eyes will be on France on September 22, when the campaign to see a woman honoured in the Panthéon enters its final stage. A belated burial in France’s famed secular temple is a great...