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David Cameron's Panama Papers response: "I have no shares, no offshore...
The Prime Minister has commented on claims about his father's offshore funds. David Cameron has responded to calls for an investigation into his tax arrangements, following the huge offshore accounts...
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The Archers was right to have Helen stab Rob
Brutalised women do sometimes kill their partners, and the criminal justice system fails them. The slow-burn horror of the psychological abuse suffered by Helen on Radio 4’s The Archers has rightly...
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We shouldn't be surprised by Northern Ireland's abortion conviction
We have allowed outselves to believe that the exceptions – the women with plane tickets and friends who won't shop them to the police – are the rule. In modern society, we’re used to the idea that the...
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Why people are crowdfunding their funerals
With the costs soaring and government aid falling short, people are turning to crowdfunding to bury their loved ones. They say it takes a village to raise a child. It increasingly seems that it also...
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New Statesman designer and illustrator Dan Murrell’s work to be shown at a...
The Swan House Gallery in Harwich will showcase the designer’s work with long-time collaborator Hugh Tisdale.*/ New Statesman designer and illustrator Dan Murrell will see his work showcased in a new...
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The Icelandic prime minister has resigned following Panama leaks revelations
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson will stay on as leader of the Progressive party. Iceland's prime minister, Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, has resigned following widespread protests in Iceland this week....
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When is it fair to criticise a politician’s family?
Politicians don't choose their parents – which makes it difficult to decide whether they are culpable for their deeds. It may be better remembered now for his baffling decision to hurl a copy of...
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The Smithers question: why do we keep retrofitting progressive narratives in...
Smithers is now “out” in The Simpsons, but does his gay narrative serve the show more than it serves the LGBT community? Last night, on US TV, Waylon J Smithers, Jr. came out as gay. The...
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#38: Zayn’s Mind of Mine, Zootropolis, The Magicians
On the pop culture podcast this week: Zayn’s first solo album Mind of Mine, Disney animated film Zootropolis and Lev Grossman’s magical thriller The Magicians. This is SRSLY, the pop culture podcast...
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The next Mayor should channel the Victorians to make London the greenest...
This is a crucial moment for London's environment - the city needs an integrated programme of investment. London has always overcome the great natural and man-made challenges it has faced. In the...
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Seamus Heaney’s translation of Aeneid Book VI: a fitting end to a life’s work
Heaney’s account of Aeneas’s encounters with the dead across death’s river is even more powerful for its restraint. Anglophone poetry has long been transfixed by the ancient epic. Christopher Logue,...
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My windpipe was blocked. I couldn’t speak but my mind was screaming
Luckily, my fellow diners were doctors. It may have been an overly large chunk of steak; or, perhaps, in my haste to rejoin the conversation, I didn’t chew sufficiently and hurried to swallow. Either...
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The sad slide of the American middle class
It’s one of the stranger verities of US politics: the way that so many members of the beleaguered working and middle classes have become wary of any politician who talks about social democracy. The...
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Britain is weaker if our principles are for sale
Our commitment to human rights abroad has never been weaker, says Hilary Benn. Britain's voice in the world is a reflection not only of the strength of our economy, but also the leadership we...
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One year on, has shared parental leave made any difference?
In our family, it has given us a small taste of how different things could be if the division between home and workplace were to become more fluid. It’s happened just the way we expected it to. One...
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The shortcomings of Midnight Special highlight exactly what Steven Spielberg...
Steven Spielberg was evidently much on the mind of the writer-director Jeff Nicholls, whose new film harks back to the senior filmmaker’s golden age. At the end of next month, BFI Southbank will host...
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The Returning Officer: Easter Rising
Winifred Carney was one of two female candidates for Sinn Fein at the 1918 election, finishing third at Belfast Victoria behind Labour Unionist and Labour candidates. Winifred Carney was one of two...
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In this week's magazine | The Tories at War
At first look at this week's issue.8th - 14th April issueThe Tories at warCover story: The Tory wars. Simon Heffer on the uncivil strife gripping the Tory party.David Marquand on the English Question:...
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Wanting it both ways: how to reconcile feminism and domesticity
Feminism has radically expanded our choices, but what happens if what you want looks a lot like what you were liberated from? Two books look at motherhood, domesticity, and what it means to opt out –...
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How the Panama Papers proved Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn right
This is a scandal long foretold by Bernie and Jeremy, says Liam Young. Five years ago a little-known independent politician from Vermont took to the Senate floor to blast a proposed trade agreement...
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