Ghosting

Andrew O’Hagan: Julian Assange, 6 March 2014

... at Ellingham Hall Assange was fast asleep. He’d been living there, at the house of Vaughan Smith, one of his sureties and founder of the Frontline Club, since his arrest on Swedish rape allegations. He was effectively under house arrest and wearing an electronic tag on his leg. He would sign in at Beccles police station every afternoon, proving he ...

Salem’s Lot

Leslie Wilson, 23 March 1995

... who claimed to have been abused in this way in childhood. The first survivor story, by Michelle Smith, a Canadian, had been published in 1980. It gave an account of memories she had recovered when she was having therapy after a miscarriage. Most of these memories had been accessed in a hypnotic trance. She said her mother had taken her to the satanic ...

‘What kind of people do they think we are?’

James Meek: On Social Housing, 10 September 2026

... led by, among others, a former adviser to Boris Johnson and the former head of policy at the Adam Smith Institute, cited the case as proof that ‘it is too hard to build things’ in the UK. In an op-ed for City AM Jeremy Driver, Britain Remade’s head of campaigns, said the cost of property had forced him to leave Peckham, where he had lived for nine ...

The Tower

Andrew O’Hagan, 7 June 2018

... together and are buried together.’ Nura had her books with her for her exams. Her chemistry, her Matthew Arnold, all of it going with her, as ‘the moon lies fair/Upon the straits’.Many of the Muslim women I spoke to weren’t keen on retribution. Most of them had no interest in apportioning blame or fighting over compensation. ‘It is all in the hands ...