Viewpoint

What a Tangled (World Wide) Web

Have our youth lost the gift of boredom?

Jane Miller

Culture

China’s One-Child Tyranny

In his new novel, Chinese author Ma Jian vividly excoriates his native country's population control.

Jane Miller

Culture

Extra Time

What to do with those 'golden years' after 80?

Jane Miller

Culture

Really Bright Ideas

Britain's coalition government inflicts creative 'reforms' upon its people.

Jane Miller

Viewpoint

Maggie Thatcher, Milk Snatcher

The tall tales are all true.

Jane Miller

Viewpoint

Demystifying India

Jane Miller reflects on the end of an empire.

Jane Miller

Viewpoint

Loving to Hate the Royal Family

Hilary Mantel's sniping at Kate Middleton, and why we Britons cling to our monarchy.

Jane Miller

Culture

Eighty at Last

On Amour and pitying the elderly.

Jane Miller

Culture

Scroungers and Strivers

We are encouraged to sneer at poverty and hardship.

Jane Miller

Viewpoint

The Feminine Mistake

What Eric Hobsbawm missed in his dismissal of feminism.

Jane Miller

Viewpoint

The Novels We Write For Ourselves

There's nothing objectionable about the new Anna Karenina film starring Keira Knightley. But she won't be my Anna.

Jane Miller

Eric Hobsbawm: In His Own Words

Jane Miller

Viewpoint

Zadie Smith’s London

More than anyone else at the moment writing fiction about London, Zadie Smith knows about race and class.

Jane Miller

Viewpoint

Schooling in a Spot of Bother

The English education system isn't leaving room for students to flourish.

Jane Miller

Feature

Defender of the Commonweal

A conversation with Polly Toynbee, The Guardian's voice of leftist dissent

Jane Miller

Culture

The Scourge of Meritocracy

An elite based on merit could be more impenetrable than one based on nepotism.

Jane Miller

Culture

The Age of Maintenance

How should England care for its elderly population?

Jane Miller

Culture

The Impossibilities of Motherhood

For thousands of years, our culture has simultaneously venerated and insulted mothers.

Jane Miller

Culture

Reading Tolstoy in London

My friend Layrsa escaped Soviet privation, from Siberia to the Ukraine, to build a new life abroad. It's still a work in progress.

Jane Miller

Culture

Courage and Convictions

Would you actually risk your life for justice?

Jane Miller

Feature

Revolution Springs Eternal for Eric Hobsbawm

94-year-old historian Eric Hobsbawm is heartened by the Arab Spring.

Jane Miller

Culture

The Iron Lady’s Mad Shadow

Margaret Thatcher's gut instincts influenced the next generation of politicians, from Blair to Bush.

Jane Miller

Culture

When Less is More Political Engagement

The only good thing about our new age of austerity is how it inspires a new wave of activists.

Jane Miller

Feature

Tony Benn: A Voice From Labour’s Left

The 86-year-old progressive firebrand and former British MP isn't retiring any time soon.

Jane Miller

Culture

Guided by Our Grandchildren

It's hard not to be inspired by the youthful idealism at the center of the Occupy movement.

Jane Miller

Culture

Our Mutual Enemy: Money

Like Dickens' cast of characters, we remain bewildered by money—and our lack of it.

Jane Miller

Culture

School Choice For The ‘Feral Underclass’

Following the lead of U.S. charter schools, English "Free Schools" are now open for business.

Jane Miller

Feature

Talking Class, ‘Chavs’ and Riots

Young author Owen Jones believes the Left has ignored class divides for too long.

Jane Miller

Culture

The English Language Ain’t That Bad

Jane Miller

Viewpoint

Amorality in the U.K.

Jane Miller

Viewpoint

The State of the Welfare State

Jane Miller

Viewpoint

The Royal We

Jane Miller

Viewpoint

Reason Not the Need

Jane Miller

Culture

All Changes Great and Small

It's impossible to chart change when it happens so fast.

Jane Miller

Culture

Growing Old Reconsidered

Reflections on the 'crazy' age.

Jane Miller