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Why the row over Jeremy Heywood matters, whoever wins the referendum
Critics of David Cameron no longer blame the machine or his aides. They blame him. For many in Westminster, the European referendum is less a question of sovereignty and more an opportunity to settle...
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From Roald Dahl to Star Wars, I read all the World Book Day 2016 books on offer
Despite being well over the age of their intended audiences, I read all of this year’s World Book Day books. It’s World Book Day 2016, which means a) cute children in adorable literary costumes and b)...
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Isis threats against Facebook and Twitter demonstrate how much it relies on...
Cutting off Isis's access to mainstream social media could take a bite out of its exposure - and even its operations. At the end of a recent Isis propaganda video, an unexpected image appears: the...
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The barrister who became a badger: why did Charles Foster decide to live like...
He ate earthworms as a badger, tore open binbags as an urban fox, and was hunted by a bloodhound as a deer.“I have become The Man Who Eats Worms,” Charles Foster shrugs, sorrowfully. “It’s not really...
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Leader: The German crisis
Germany’s struggles offer lessons for all Western countries in how to respond to the question of migration – the single most serious issue facing the EU today. In September 2015, Germans gathered at...
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Letter from Kenya: Give young people what extremists can’t – an inclusive...
Radicals don’t wake up one day and join Isis or Al Shabaab. Extremism fills a gap; preying on people who feel lost, confused and excluded from society. I sit in a former no-go area in Kenya’s second...
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Jeremy Corbyn's speech to British business leaders confirms he's a...
Jeremy Corbyn used his speech at the British Chambers of Commerce conference to deliver the address Ed Miliband always wanted to. David Lloyd George once advised a new MP that their speeches should...
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The landscape of Greenland was so empty, Morten Hilmer had to ration his...
After two months on patrol, Hilmer and his colleague not only had nothing left to talk about - but nothing left to think. An edition of Outlook Weekend (28 February, 8.30am, BBC World Service) heard...
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Why Jeremy Corbyn is like Donald Trump
One is the much-mocked outsider who has put a spring in the step of the grasroots, while horrifying an elite that has lost two elections in a row. The other is Jeremy Corbyn. It's not as easy as you’d...
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Why 1916 still decides Irish elections after a century
Again, we hear that there are no significant ideological differences between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael – both are centre-right parties. So what divides voters? It was widely thought that the centenary...
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Commons Confidential: Installing McBride 2.0
Corbyn's shoes, SNP blues - and more Trident trouble for Labour.SNP members are forever tweeting about the disgraceful absence of rival parties at one debate or other, though many wonder if it is to...
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Churchill’s Secret is fine, I suppose - but I wonder why it was made
I couldn't fathom the purpose of this dollop of heritage television, so ivy-clad it'll soon be available on DVD from the National Trust. Plus: Murder. It’s rather odd, at this point in time, to be...
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How the "free market" in vaccines is neither free nor fair
It seems to be the job of politicians and corporate spin-doctors not to help force change, but to explain why change can’t happen; why this sickening reality must be allowed to prevail; and why the...
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Hillary Clinton’s haters and the glass ceiling of American politics
Whatever you think of Clinton as a politician, it's undeniable that she has been castigated for her ambition in a way her male rival has not. It used to be said that the Americas were conquered by the...
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Having a stammer is an everyday demon, not a single moment for feel-good TV
The Oscar-winning short film Stutterer is a rare pop culture depiction of what it’s actually like to have a stammer. It is obvious I am disabled – the wheelchair sees to that, but my real disability...
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Don't worry about Trump - the US political system was designed to stop the...
Plus: junior doctors sold into slavery, and a new day for newspapers. Donald Trump’s surge towards the Republican nomination for US president and perhaps even the White House reminds me of the...
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Goodnight Mommy is a chilling Austrian horror film with national guilt at its...
As twins Lukas and Elias begin to suspect the woman who has come home from the hospital is not their real mother, there is a strong sense that it is the motherland which is rotten. In Clint Eastwood’s...
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The NS Podcast #138: Celebrity, uncertainty and cinema
The New Statesman podcast. Helen and Stephen talk plots from Super Tuesday and Europe. George Eaton explores Labour’s latest drama. Then the SRSLY Podcast’s Anna Leszkiewicz joins to discuss what we...
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On the seafront in Scarborough, my father fought against the dying of the light
On the last evening went to an amusement arcade, and in a shove-penny machine – where you pile in coins until a prize tips over the edge – my six-year-old spotted Basil Brush. I found Basil Brush the...
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Yes, the European Union may feel distant to small businesses. But don't write...
The benefits are real and tangible. The Leave.EU campaign has gained no small ally today in the small business sector, after 200 small business owners to sign a letter in support of leaving the EU....
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