Politics

Where are we now?

The LRB dedicates a vast spread to responses to the UK’s EU referendum result. Contributors look at the issue from all sorts of angles – the greatest value perhaps lies in the interplay between the viewpoints when placed alongside each other.

The Showman

A May 2016 profile of Preet Bharara, the charismatic United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, who announced yesterday that he had been fired by the Trump administration after refusing to stand down.

Arron Banks: The Man Who Bought Brexit

A profile of the unique character who ploughed £7.5m into the campaign to leave the EU. He has now set his sights on a broad populist democratic movement to take on what he sees as the flawed and corrupt democratic institutions governing the UK.