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Corbyn's compromises show that he isn't so different from his rivals
The Labour leadership frontrunner is a politician after all. Jeremy Corbyn is lauded by his supporters for his honesty and conviction. His repudiation of the shabby compromises and realpolitik of...
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Unlikely sisters in the Gaza Strip
A former Jewish settler in Gaza recalls her childhood friendship with a young Palestinian. It was well after midnight, one summer night in 1995, when Inbar Rozy, a 13-year-old living in the former...
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Leader: Goodbye to global glut as the financial markets stumble
Cheap money is a shaky foundation on which to build genuine economic growth. After China’s main stock exchange plunged by 8.5 per cent on 24 August, the Shanghai composite index’s worst single day...
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Far from helping students, fines for resits will make things worse
Teachers and pupils alike will feel the pressure if a new scheme goes through, warns Joe Fell. Failing schools ought to be fined, says a think tank. But contrary to popular opinion, sharing is not...
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Sadiq Khan is the radical Mayor that Londoners need
I've lived and worked in this city all my life. Sadiq is the mayor we need, says Andy Slaughter MP. I have lived and worked in London all my life and for the past 20 years, as council leader or MP,...
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Morning Call: The best from Gibraltar
A selection of the best articles about politics, business and life on the Rock from the last seven days. Before this week’s round-up goes any further your correspondent wants to announce that Little...
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120 years on, and rugby league is still patronised as “parochial”
Even as Leeds and Hull Kingston Rovers do battle in the 2015 Challenge Cup final, the century-old conflict between rugby league and rugby union isn’t over. When Leeds and Hull Kingston Rovers step out...
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What's going on in Northern Ireland?
Power-sharing and devolved rule are under threat. What's going on? Ciara Dunne explains. The UUP will formalise their decision to withdraw from the Northern Ireland executive on Saturday. The DUP...
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British mental health is in crisis
The headlines about "parity of esteem" between mental and physical health remain just that, warns Benedict Cooper. I don’t need to look very far to find the little black marks on this government’s...
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A To-Do List for the next Labour leader
Whoever wins in September faces an uphill task. IpsosMori's Gideon Skinner lays it out. While all the media attention is focused on the prospect of a victory for Jeremy Corbyn on September 12, it...
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What do Labour's lost voters make of the Labour leadership candidates?
What does Newsnight's focus group make of the Labour leadership candidates? Tonight on Newsnight, an IpsosMori focus group of former Labour voters talks about the four Labour leadership candidates....
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Sex and the city: the novel that listens in on New York
Linda Rosenkrantz's Talk captures the conversations of a sex-obsessed city. Especially for New Yorkers such as the ones in Linda Rosenkrantz’s novel Talk, summertime is both maddening and delicious:...
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The footie is back. Three weeks in and what have we learned so far?
Barcleys, boots and big names... the Prem is back. Another season, another reason for making whoopee cushions and giving them to Spurs fans to cheer them up during the long winter afternoons ahead....
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Mathias Énard is the most brazen French writer since Houellebecq
Énard's latest novel, Street of Thieves, has ideas and charisma to burn. This book, though no kind of failure, may seem a little pinched and bashful to readers of Mathias Énard’s novel Zone, a...
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To stop Jeremy Corbyn, I am giving my second preference to Andy Burnham
The big question is whether Andy Burnham or Yvette Cooper will face Jeremy in the final round of this election. Voting is now underway in the Labour leadership election. There can be no doubt that...
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I believe only Yvette Cooper has the breadth of support to beat Jeremy Corbyn
All the recent polling suggests Andy Burnham is losing more votes than anyone else to Jeremy Corbyn, says Diana Johnson MP.Tom Blenkinsop MP on the New Statesman website today says he is giving his...
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What did Jeremy Corbyn really say about Bin Laden?
He's been critiqued for calling Bin Laden's death a "tragedy". But what did Jeremy Corbyn really say? Jeremy Corbyn is under fire for describing Bin Laden’s death as a “tragedy” in the Sun, but what...
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Are we taking Woody Allen for granted?
In some ways, Allen is a prisoner of the independence from Hollywood he fought for so long to protect. Do you know what a state Annie Hall was in when it first emerged from the editing room? Maybe...
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SRSLY #8: Graphic Teens
We talk Diary of a Teenage Girl, Marvel's Agent Carter, and Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis. This is SRSLY, the pop culture podcast from the New Statesman. Here, you can find links to all the things we...
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Why can't we stop for death?
The Black Mirror and The Worm at the Core reveal the human obsession with, and denial of, our mortality. When he was entering what he knew would be the final stage of his terminal illness, Bob...
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