Ambush Predator

I plead guilty .  Oh good... I have loved and used the streets of London all my life, as a cyclist , driver and pedestrian. Touch wood, I ha...

As you might know if you read my columns , see me a mile away, or talk to me for five seconds, I am a card-carrying lifelong member of the F...

To call this Saturday the nation’s 250th birthday is to indulge a comfortable fiction . 1776 was a declaration, not a birth certificate –...

...on the subject of water. And a column from t he most vapid of the 'Guardian's' stable is always a treat, eh, Reader? Like ma...

I used to love a heatwave . I was the sort of British person who acted like I was in the Mediterranean if the sun was slightly visible, coer...

When did food become medicine? There’s all the pseudoscientific supplementary stuff , but even normal food has started to feel functional ,...

What do James McAvoy and my three-year-old son have in common ? Very little, you might think, notwithstanding their shared awareness of the ...

Fan fiction is democracy in its purest, most chaotic form . It’s the people seizing the means of production . Every “what if?” is a tiny re...

Aditya's been sampling literature for talking points, his usual ones no longer working as they used to... An Englishman drives into a ne...

A “ dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal”, is how Amnesty International’s secretary general, Agnès Callamard , descri...

That number will stay fixed for ever in public memory: 23,000 people died because Boris Johnson resisted locking the country down in time . ...

  An extraordinary thing to have published in a major newspaper, even one as blatently biased as the 'Guardian': The resignation o...

  I’ve worked with the super-rich my whole career. I worked for more than a decade as a lawyer advising high net worth individuals, and many...

The news that a child damaged a £42m Mark Rothko painting at a museum in Rotterdam last month had me wondering how I’d feel if my toddler w...

He doesn't mean 'us', of course. This is the 'Guardian' - he means you lot . With British politics fragmenting , voters ...