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Trident is the Tories' post-EU referendum weapon
By holding a Commons vote that will split Labour more than any other, the Conservatives can turn attention back to the opposition's divisions. In his response to David Cameron’s EU statement, Jeremy...
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The laughing Scotsman: Alex Salmond on LBC
Watching Salmond in the studio with Iain Dale makes it clear who's running the show.“You can call in with anything you like. Within reason, of course.” Alex Salmond settles in to the sixth week of his...
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Sam Pepper, Dapper Laughs and the art of the internet apology
The vlogger has hidden his videos and released a video revealing that his controversial pranks were faked. But is this just a ploy to save his career? Sam Pepper is an enormously successful British...
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The voice telling me to open the till didn't sound like a robber - more a bad...
He wasn't a big guy. In fact, he looked like he'd have trouble playing Twister, to be honest. Much like happiness, fear is something I don’t think you’re aware of in the moment. Adrenalin catapults us...
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The NS Podcast #137: Boris, Brexit and online abuse
The New Statesman podcast. This week, Helen and Stephen discuss Boris Johnson's Vote Leave announcement. We hear from George Eaton on the latest dispatch-box battles. And tech-writer Barbara Speed...
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The young can experiment with “granny hair” – but I absolutely refuse to go grey
I know what you’re going to say: “Tracey, you’re out of step. Grey is cool now. Fashionable people dye their hair grey.” Not for me. My hair started going grey in my thirties. It’s in my genes – we go...
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Instead of moaning about Uber, Labour should embrace its potential
New technologies are here to stay - and they can work for the worker, too, says Ian Austin. London ground to a halt again recently as the capital’s cabbies campaigned against Uber. You’ve got to...
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Olivia Laing's The Lonely City changes how we view artistic sacrifice
Laing's book uses her own loneliness to consider a group of 20th-century figures who expressed their alienation through art. When David Bowie died I was a long way from home. I live alone, anyhow; but...
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Why did Jeb Bush fail?
Once the Repubican frontrunner, the former governor's campaign ended in crushing defeat. Why? Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign came to an ignominious end on Saturday night. After three Republican...
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Deutschland 83’s Jonas Nay on Eighties hits, his German history “grey zone”,...
Born after the Berlin Wall fell, the German actor reflects on what he has learnt about the Cold War, and why his generation should know more about it.“Every breath you take . . .” Jonas Nay grins,...
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I'll be fighting to stay in the European Union because, not in spite, of the...
We'd betray both our values and our policies by leaving, says Liam Young. Many of my friends have left the Labour party over the years, particularly when the party attempted to outflank the Tories on...
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"She had the skin": Donald Trump boasted that he could have slept with...
The princess and the schmuckrobin. Happily digging through the news this morning, your mole chanced upon some shocking information buried in a Buzzfeed story on the United States' heir apparent,...
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Why are long films getting longer?
Too often these days, particularly in commercial cinema, the credo seems to be more is more.*/ When I was young, I used to frequently complain about long masses every Sunday (needless to say, back...
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I’ve glimpsed Cameron, Blair and Thatcher up close in public – each time was...
No one thought to yell at Cameron as he passed, and no one shouted “Dave We Love You”. I saw David Cameron in the flesh yesterday. I was at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London to read from my...
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Ultimately we don’t need Trident – and it won’t keep us safe
The Green MP on why she will be protesting against the UK's nuclear fleet. Former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook noted that Trident was "worse than irrelevant" for dealing with the international and...
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Trade is important. But not as important as our values
The government risks selling off our principles and not just our exports, says Richard Needham. This week the Malaysian MP Nurul Izzah, the charismatic daughter of Anwar Ibrahim, is back in London. It...
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Ghost in the Shell, over two decades old, remains our most challenging film...
The first questions about the loss of human identity in a tech-filled world were raised in Mamoru Oshii’s 1995 hit film. Japanese animated films and anime series are weird. But the release of the...
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The Rotherham abuse scandal shows us that too much power still lies in the...
While the institutions that abuse victims have to deal with remain corrupt, remote and male-dominated, justice will always be hard to come by. Here is the problem: the problem is power. Too much of it...
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What kind of government sends widows and invalids home to their death for a...
We have to ask ourselves: can we bear to live in a nation where millionares are welcomed while the vulnerable risk being deported? Have I missed a very important memo? My desk is disorganised, but I’m...
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Paid surrogacy makes disadvantaged women into walking wombs – an unacceptable...
Liberal feminism has painted itself into a corner from which it is very hard to launch a coherent critique of surrogacy. Last week, a national newspaper ran a piece on the shortage of people in the...
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