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Lines of duty: Tales of the Jacobites, and other alternative successions
Notes from a parallel universe. The Queen has become the first head of state of the UK, or any of its predecessor or component nations, to reach the age of ninety. She has done so within months of...
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“Wentworthism”: What the execution of an advisor to Charles I tells us about...
The problem always begins and ends with the king. On a spring morning in May 1641, Thomas Wentworth was executed in front of the Tower of London. His crime? To serve faithfully in the court of Charles...
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Me and my monarch: Athelstan (924-949)
The most important English king you know nothing about. The first Roman emperor was Augustus. The first US president was George Washington. The first English monarch, though, is a surprisingly...
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Why the Remain campaign is putting its faith in odd alliances
The alliance between George Osborne, Ed Balls and Vince Cable signals that the EU is a cause that transcends partisan divisions. Just a year has passed since Ed Balls and Vince Cable fell victim to...
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Sorry, Nicky, I’m out: why this teacher is resigning
In some ways I don’t feel like a teacher at all any more. What I didn’t realise when I started back in 2010 is that the job would get harder each year. Dear Nicky Morgan, Please accept this as written...
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Only one man can bring down Boris Johnson - Jeremy Corbyn
As the bombastic ex-mayor's polar opposite, the Labour leader could bring Johnson to heel, writes Liam Young. In five weeks’ time British voters will head to the polls to answer arguably one of the...
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Why we need a fat people's Olympics to reclaim sport from the sporty
Now I'm running regularly, I find myself wondering what we could do to make exercise an appealing habit from childhood – and, more importantly, give people the space to do it. I hate exercise. It...
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Facebook didn’t make Trump a phenomenon – its users did
It is Facebook’s vast population, not its algorithm or its curators, that has made Trump a social media force. If the increasingly-not-that-unthinkable happens, if TV screens around the world next...
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The Queen's Speech offers a slow government the chance to accelerate
There are obvious reasons for the government's lethargy. There’s a referendum to win. It curtails the appetite for risk. In the week of the Queen’s Speech we will learn if David Cameron ever plans to...
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The world will pay a price for failing to invest in child refugees' education
We can see worldwide the consequences for social cohesion when generations of children grow up in refugee camps without access to education. Yesterday I flew back from visiting refugee camps in the...
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New Statesman Media launches new spinoff technology website, NS Tech
Bringing technology stories to life. Progressive Media today announces the latest addition to the New Statesman family, NS Tech. The new B2B enterprise technology site will serve the growing number of...
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My England, our England: how Euro 2016 can unite a nation in patriotism
Sporting summers are about football and much more besides. Roy's boys can help us build an inclusive sense of English pride. Nobody ever told my eight-year-old self that there was any question about...
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Sykes-Picot denied the Kurds a nation - there is still time to reverse that...
It was a different age and one that has gone, but our involuntary incorporation into what became Iraq has been a source of great misery for the Kurds. You'll be hearing a lot this week about...
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Conspiracy theories, threats and Hitler: the Leave campaign is the real...
The campaign to leave the EU is an evidence-free zone. They needed a new argument, a positive, forward-looking vision for what they see as the future of Britain... but they realised they didn’t have...
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Malia Bouattia and the murky world of political blackness
People of colour in the UK have different racialised experiences, and to conflate them seems to me to be unwise and outdated.Blackness is in vogue. All over the world people are raising their fists...
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How many King Edwards has England had? Why I am irrationally enraged by...
When the fourth is the first. Pop quiz, hotshot. The last King of England who went by the name of Edward was Edward VIII (1936). So, how many King Edwards has England had?Ha. Fooled you. It's eleven....
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Lab Girl disproves the common myth that women always rate feelings over facts
Hope Jahren travelled from state to state, building a laboratory – almost from scratch – in each. Now, a memoir reveals her passion for plants in all its glory. Hope Jahren grew up in a cold place –...
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A biography of a 19th-century Bengali mystic, complete with haikus – and...
The Cauliflower® could only have been written by Nicola Barker's bitingly intelligent mind. How else could such a zany novel still provide deep insights into faith? This is a biographical novel about...
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Enough with Britain’s secret wars
Special forces and other covert means are being used to fight wars the public never agreed to. President Obama recently announced plans to send 250 additional special forces soldiers to Syria,...
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Me and my monarch: William III (1688-1702)
The one Stuart king who wasn't awful.“What happened next?” That’s the question that I first asked, probably when I was around seven or so, after I finished my first ever Horrible Histories. It was,...
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