For the past 10 years, Guardian journalist Jonathan Freedland has used the alter ego to publish a series of hit novels, so why is his sixth story appearing under his own name?
Published by: The Guardian
In France, in Tunisia, in Kuwait – horror upon horror, in a single day. It played out like some kind of gruesome auction, each atrocity bidding against the others for our appalled attention. The opening offer came near Lyon, where a factory was attacked and, more shocking, a severed head was found on top of a gate, and a decapitated body nearby. The French president said the corpse had been inscribed with a message.
Published by: The Guardian
It's hardly made headlines here, but one striking feature of the new Israeli government is the presence of several vocal, forceful and trenchantly right-wing women. The Minister of Culture is Miri Regev, who achieved notoriety in 2012 when she describe...
Published by: The Jewish Chronicle
Jon Stewart and Barack Obama are men of a similar age with, on some days, a similar role. Sometimes it falls to both of them to help their fellow Americans digest what’s happening around them, to make sense of it. Yesterday it was the murder by a white supremacist of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina.
Published by: The Guardian
Somewhere between Rome and Las Vegas stands the island of Borneo and its highest peak, Mount Kinabalu. Not literally, you understand. But in the map of our minds, its contours formed by our confused, conflicting attitudes to travel, tourism and the way we are meant to behave when we venture beyond these shores.
Published by: The Guardian
As forms of political communication go, the campaign theme song is among the lamest. It’ll be a special kind of nerd who treasures his copy of the Lib Dems’ mash-up of Uptown Funk, while the Green party’s boyband parody similarly prompted the toes to curl into a previously unknown and possibly dangerous position. And yet politicians’ choice of election anthem can be revealing.
Published by: The Guardian