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The Pearl Button seeks to reveal Chile's suffering - but doesn't quite hold...
Patricio Guzmán's films have brought the story of his country to the world. Yet this latest film lacks the clarity so central to his previous offerings. The waterways of western Patagonia were home...
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“A party that attracts antisemites like flies to a cesspit”: the Jewish...
In a damning leader, the newspaper calls on Jeremy Corbyn to address the “cancer” of antisemitism in his party. In its strongest condemnation of the new Labour leadership yet, the Jewish Chronicle...
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Budget 2016: the pressure is on for public services
The government will have to work hard to deliver services in a cold climate. While the headlines are about sugar and young people, the Budget has serious implications for public services. The second...
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Jane Eyre for radio? It's a far cry from "Reader, I married him"
BBC Radio 4's adaptation made it sound like Jane and Rochester were in different rooms - and worse, they changed the lines.“So, there you are, listener – not reader – she married him.” Jenni Murray...
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As House of Cards hits season four, the script has gone from unlikely to...
Plus: why the ending of Happy Valley left me bereft. Cluck, cluck, cluck. In House of Cards, now in its fourth season on Netflix, the chickens are coming home to roost, which would be perfect if I...
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Commons Confidential: John McDonnell's Kapital concerns
Plus: Labour wars, sexist bores and Ashcroft's birthday bash.John McDonnell’s reincarnation as an iron shadow chancellor preaching “Financial discipline, comrades, financial discipline” seems still...
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George Osborne just announced the biggest appropriation of Church land since...
Hey, it worked once! Between 1536 and 1541, the government of Henry VIII systematically disbanded more than 600 monasteries, priories, convents and friaries. It sold off their assets. It appropriated...
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My family are addicted to screens - and we're all the closer for it
I’ve lost count of how many vines and gifs I’ve had to peer at on a teenager’s phone. Whatever else I shared with my parents, I don’t remember sharing this many laughs. So here we go, the opening...
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What would Emily Davison think of Cheltenham races? Would Marie Antoinette be...
And other burning questions from the mind of Richard Littlejohn.*/ Hold your horses everyone: Richard Littlejohn has discovered the latest threat to modern morality at Cheltenham racecourse. Play a...
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France and the UK must work together to combat the refugee crisis
Franco-British comradeship, anarchy at Shoreditch House and French grub in the Clink. As David Cameron touched down in Amiens a couple of weeks ago for the 34th Franco-British summit, I noticed that...
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With his disability benefit cuts, George Osborne is telling us we’re not...
The Chancellor plans to save £1.2bn in the Budget by reforming the PIP benefit and making it even harder to claim. Since its inception, the Personal Independence Payment has been riddled with...
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After George Osborne's Budget, Labour is on alert for an early election
MPs believe the Chancellor may go to the country before 2020 if he becomes prime minister.Shortly after yesterday’s Budget, a shadow cabinet minister told me what he thought George Osborne's game was....
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The NS Podcast #140: Budget Special
The New Statesman Podcast. This week, Helen, Stephen and George discuss Osborne’s latest budget. Listen in to find out what cola-glugging Stephen Bush thinks about the sugar tax, what George Eaton’s...
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Budget 2016: No plan for the future, and no hope for Britain
Forget white heat. All that the Chancellor offered was cold despair.“Putting the next generation first” was George Osborne’s branding on this, his eighth budget. Young people have certainly been first...
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Watch: Children refuse to play netball with George Osborne
"Here we go... come on." Ever get transported back to those awful playground memories you thought you'd successfully repressed? You know the ones. All your schoolmates are playing netball together. And...
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Easter 1916: An ebook of archive pieces from the New Statesman
A selection of archive pieces from the New Statesman in the years leading up to, and following, the Easter Rising in Dublin. To commemorate the centanery of the 1916 Easter Rising, we've selected some...
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Jeremy Corbyn's Labour takes election lead
Seven thoughts on tonight's good news for Labour. Party like it's April 2015! Labour lead in the polls. The party has taken a one-point lead with YouGov, with 34 per cent of the vote to the...
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Should Siri offer rape and mental health advice – and should we take it?
Empathy isn’t easy to teach. “If suicide is brought up, Siri springs to action,” begins the introduction to a new study into how our smartphone assistants respond in a crisis. “Siri, however, has not...
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Zayn Malik’s new song BeFoUr and the dissolution of One Direction
Zayn’s new song discusses his decision to leave the boyband that found him fame. As the Zaynaissance continues, and the release of his first solo record Mind of Mine on 25 March grows ever closer, Zayn...
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What we talk about when we talk about millennials
When we speak about generational angst, we should not forget that we are really talking about class, and class expectations. It has been eight years since the Great Recession, and the current economic...
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