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Burner phones and mysterious encryption: how is Isis communicating now?
One thing’s for sure: not everything is being intercepted. In the wake of today's terror attacks in Brussels, for which Isis has now claimed responsibility, anti-EU voices in the UK have already piped...
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“Cannabis has been left behind”: the extraordinary life of Lee Harris, the...
The 79-year old is running to be London Mayor for the Cannabis Is Safer Than Alcohol party.*/ Lee Harris mentions so many jobs in the course of our interview that it becomes hard to keep up. “Once I...
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What can the Conservatives do for ethnic minority Britons?
If the right plays its cards right, it could take a decisive chunk of the non-white vote for the first time. The brutal truth is that it has always been smart politics for mainstream Conservatives to...
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Regression dressed up as “reform”: how rhetoric helped dismantle the welfare...
Iain Duncan Smith’s misuse of the word “reform” characterises this government’s linguistic banditry. The idea of “reform” has a long, honourable tradition in Britain: individuals and social movements...
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SRSLY #36: Thirteen, Anomalisa, A Little Chaos
On the pop culture podcast this week, we chat BBC Three drama Thirteen, stop-motion film Anomalisa, and the 2014 Alan Rickman film A Little Chaos.*/ This is SRSLY, the pop culture podcast from the New...
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What Iain Duncan Smith got wrong - and what Labour can do right
Iain Duncan Smith's list of mistakes is long. But you have to understand it all to get what went wrong, says Alison McGovern. Iain Duncan Smith's record in government will no doubt be obscured by the...
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A manifesto for a happy Britain
One of Labour’s new economic advisers on how government can change the world for the better – if it dares to think differently. One evening, many years ago, I was standing in a field near Luton. Beer...
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Will Glastonbury decide the outcome of the EU referendum?
The vote falls on the Thursday of the music festival, which 200,000 people attend. On Thursday 23 June in the UK, you will be doing one of two things. Staggering through a field in Somerset, head...
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From The Princess Diaries to Tangerine, the best women’s friendships in film
Relationships between women – in life and in the movies – are often as richly cinematic as their romantic counterparts. If the romantic comedy has been transmuted into – or rather, hijacked by – the...
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Not neutral, very hostile: the miscategorised MPs on Jeremy Corbyn’s list of...
Keep your friends close, pretend your enemies are even closer. There’s much excitement in Westminster today over the publication by The Times of a leaked list of every Labour MP, classified by how...
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George Osborne made a big u-turn. But nobody is talking about it
It's time for the government to change its approach. Away from the fallout from George Osborne’s unfair attempt to cut disability benefits, the IDS of March, and Ministers’ extraordinary u-turn on...
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PMQs review: Labour MPs despair as David Cameron plays Jeremy Corbyn off the...
The Prime Minister didn't just survive the session - he enjoyed it. Jeremy Corbyn arrived at today’s PMQs hoping to score the open goals he missed on Monday. Unfortunately for him, the match had...
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From the archive: The New Statesman on the Easter Rising
This New Statesman report, just signed “from an Irish correspondent”, gives a first-person account of the events of Easter 1916 in Dublin.This is an extract from Easter 1916: From the New Statesman...
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How hipsters are making ethnic minority Londoners' lives a whole lot worse
Gentrification is not just a class issue. Is gentrification driving out ethnic minority Londoners? The evidence seems to suggest so As hipsters and successful professionals move into highly...
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Batman v Superman is a stupid idea – it ignores the complexity of their...
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice sees two comic book heroes meet on the big screen for the first time. It’s the grudge match of the century, they say. But who really wants to see them go up against...
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Why a good list is at the heart of successful politics
Jeremy Corbyn's leaked list shows what the leader's office is doing right, and what it's doing wrong Lists. Politics is nothing without lists. There are the ‘promises’ you try to mobilise on polling...
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A century after the Easter Rising, we Brits should be less nervous about...
And maybe, given the possibility of Brexit, even apply for an Irish passport. One of the great things about running any of the big city marathons is the sightseeing that can distract you from the...
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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. This is going to be the last morning call on the subject of Gibraltar for a good while, and...
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“Sometimes, I hated you”: two friends recount memories of their relationship
“You always could bring me out of the house and make me notice what was happening in the moment, even – or especially – when that didn’t seem possible.” 1. For most of our school years, our capacity...
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On the return of Pee-Wee Herman
Tim Burton is not on board for the new Netflix original Pee-Wee movie, Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday. But the cult character has an equally influential benefactor these days: Judd Apatow. In all the hoopla...
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