Mum bans son from playing Grand Theft Auto until he writes essay on misogyny
A mother banned her son from playing the video game Grand Theft Auto until he was old enough to write an essay on “misogyny and its effects on society”. Heather...
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Watch Owen Jones quiz Peter Hitchens on religion, railways and revolutions
The Guardian’s Owen Jones has been doing an excellent series of videos in which he meets political figures, often not on his side, to discuss whichever po...
George Osborne attacks fiscal charter as ‘vacuous and irrelevant legislation’
This week saw chaos in Labour as its shadow chancellor John McDonnell withdrew his support for the Tory government’s fiscal charter, which commits governm...
Why Jeremy Corbyn and the ‘politics of love’ is a load of mawkish bollocks
You might think that the main reason for Jeremy Corbyn’s election as leader of Labour was a poorly thought-out electoral system that allowed large numbers...
Meet Captain Europe, an EU civil servant’s answer to America’s superheroes
If any comic book fans have ever wondered whether Europe would ever produce an answer to likes of Captain America, one “mild mannered civil servant” has respond...