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The holy bun that crossed the centuries
When it comes to hot cross buns, I love nibbling round the chewy cross on top like an ill-mannered five-year-old. If you have just turned the page with buttery fingers, if your nostrils are filled...
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Reader, I stalked him: on Charlotte Brontë in her bicentenary year
A look at the time Charlotte Brontë spent in Brussels revelas a study in creative obsession. In the run-up to the bicentenary of Charlotte Brontë’s birth on 21 April 1816, there has been a renewed...
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Will we ever find aliens?
When and where are we most likely to find extraterrestrial life? Curiosity. It’s why we smear bee vomit on our bread and stir tea with a cow’s breast milk. It’s why the co-founders of Google have...
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Can we ever know what will escape the oblivion of history?
We can never know why the modern reader prefers Jane Austen to Walter Scott, or if anyone will still be reading Hilary Mantel in a century’s time. Many years ago I embarked on a postgraduate degree on...
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What we learnt from the first academic Archers conference
I sat with two of the organisers, debating whether all members of the extended Archer family were insufferably smug. “Pat and Tony can get in the sea,” one of them said, cheerfully. Nearly a year...
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The Returning Officer: Anna Barlow
A lifelong campaigner for peace and temperance, she said at an event for the Grove Retreat for Inebriate Women in 1913 that drink adverts should be “stopped in a Christian country”. Anna, Lady Barlow,...
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The area where London is a world-leader: its polluted air
Across Europe, Britain's capital leads the way for the wrong reason. London has been voted the most desirable place to work in the world, it’s the second most visited city on the planet and was...
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All 18-year-olds are brilliant these days. Men in their thirties remain as...
The young are much better than I was at their age; more socially attuned, more quietly confident, and with a wider vocabulary. How they do this without reading books is a mystery to me. A visit from...
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Everything adds up for Edinburgh’s Fintech boom
According to recent figures published by Innovate Finance, global investment in financial technology (Fintech) ventures has rocketed from $930m in 2008 to $12.5bn in 2015, with recognised tech...
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Looking to the future
In our last regular article on Gibraltar for a while, Gibraltar Chronicle editor Brian Reyes looks to the economic and political outlook for the short and medium term. At the beginning of March, over...
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The depressing truth about women and business
It was a struggle setting up my own business 20 years ago as a woman, and the truth is, that hasn't changed. But they can. It is twenty years since I first set up in business by co-founding the Future...
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SRSLY #37: Doctor Thorne, Female Friendship and Alt-J
This week, we chat ITV's Doctor Thorne, Female Friendship Week on the New Statesman website, and the debut album from British band Alt-J. This is SRSLY, the pop culture podcast from the New Statesman....
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Algorithms may save us from information overload, but are they the curators...
Instagram is joining the legions of social networks which use algorithms to dictate what we see, and when we see it. We've entered the age of the algorithm. In a way, it was inevitable: thanks to the...
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The big question around steel that no one is asking
The argument about what happens next is missing something. Tata Steel has announced it will sell off its British arm, throwing the future of the British steel industry into doubt. Tata runs steelworks...
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How the Republican party can escape Donald Trump - and Ted Cruz
The convention process makes it difficult for the Republican party to escape its gruesome twosome - but not impossible. It can be hard, in the fight for the Republican nomination, to keep score....
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In this week's magazine | The terror trail
A first look at this week's issue.1 - 7 April issueThe terror trailCover story John Gray on the new age of hyper-terrorism. Letters from Brussels: Tim King on Belgium’s refusal to learn from its...
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The plight of Business Secretary Sajid Javid, who flew all the way to...
He's already seen the in-flight film. He's already successfully avoided deep vein thrombosis. He must be so bored. Poor old Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and free earplug...
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The politics of income tax – and why George Osborne has set traps for the SNP...
The Politics Column.“Don’t ever put up income tax, mate. Take [money] off them anyhow you please but do that and they’d rip your f***ing guts out.” This was the blunt but well-meaning advice that Paul...
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To save British steel, we need cool heads and strong action from government
Thousands of steelworkers across the United Kingdom are relying on us to collectively raise our game and the world is watching – we cannot fail. The announcement that Tata Steel are to put all of their...
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The role of utilities
The economy is one thing but the right infrastructure has to be in place. Four of the North’s utility companies explain their role. Economic regeneration is happening right across the north of...
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