“Blue ticks were a mistake”: Bruce Daisley on leaving Twitter and fixing workplace culture
Twitter’s outgoing European vice-president opens up about life at the social network, and his quest for worker wellbeing.
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“I don’t think I would have prorogued parliament”: Former Tory leader Michael Howard on Boris Johnson
After Michael Howard led the Conservative Party to its third consecutive electoral defeat in 2005, he made his resignation speech…
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Minette Batters: Brexit has been “a face-slapping moment” for farming
Minette Batters could not have chosen a more difficult time to become the first female president of the National Farmers’…
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“What’s missing in the work of Richard Dawkins is social justice”
Jovial, clean-cut and impeccably tailored, Martin Hägglund has been hailed as “the most important young philosopher in America”. Born in…
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Jo Swinson: “We can’t pretend we didn’t get things wrong”
Jo Swinson is running for the Liberal Democrat leadership, and if the bookmakers are right, she is on course to…
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Ronan Farrow on pursuing Harvey Weinstein and experiencing a “halo effect of misogyny”
The New Yorker writer encountered spies, betrayal and prejudice while reporting the exposé that fuelled the #MeToo movement.
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“Mark Fisher was the intellectual leader of a generation”
The early weeks of 2017 were traumatic for Alex Niven. His newborn son was not sleeping. His partner had suffered…
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Esther Duflo: “Even politicians now realise how mistaken austerity was”
The Nobel-winning economist on why Brexit happened, Emmanuel Macron’s errors and Donald Trump’s political genius.
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