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BBC Food’s recipes won't “disappear” – and you’ll still be able to cook along...
Take heart: the recipes will be “archived”, not deleted, and BBC Good Food isn't going anywhere. The latest casualty of the BBC's charter renewal process is its recipe site, BBC Food. Politics aside,...
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Explained: The Conservative election expenses saga
The national spending limits have never been met at a general election and, in truth, it’s not even very close. But there are local spending limits too. Since late January, a story about political...
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Could restoring a bunch of kings solve Europe’s democratic deficit?
QTWTAIN. In 1948, four years before his forced abdication, King Farouk of Egypt remarked there would soon only be five kings: of hearts, spades, clubs, diamonds and England. By this measure, kings have...
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My patient refused to go into hospital – until I saw the poster on his wall
Gaining Daryl’s consent to examination was one thing, getting his agreement to be admitted quite another. Anthony, my registrar, took an out-of-hours call from a care home. One of the residents, a...
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Alice Through the Looking Glass: a more focused affair than Tim Burton’s...
They’ve still thrown every possible idea at the wall, but this time some of them stick. Sometimes artists need to be relieved of their own creation to allow it to flourish and evolve. The Star Wars...
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Lazy left-wing Brexit supporters are endangering the left's future
The bulk of the organised left is backing a Remain vote because the EU is so clearly not a reactionary force in our domestic politics. The nearer the referendum gets, the narrower the polls become....
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How Bernie Sanders uses rhetoric to make Americans support left-wing ideas
The Democratic candidate has deftly moved the debate to the left. One major achievement of the Bernie Sanders campaign in the US has been to build support for left-wing policies that only months ago...
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Zapping your own brain to treat depression? Surely it's too good to be true
How neurostimulation fooled us all – and why the field needs to take a hard look at its methods in future. It’s 200 years since Mary Shelley imagined a mad scientist who hit a cadaver with a jolt of...
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Under Natalie Bennett, the Greens became the new pragmatists of the left
The future of the Green party lies in cross-party coalitions, both in and out of Parliament.“Let’s bring together the broadest coalition possible”, Natalie Bennett told me at the Green Party...
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SRSLY #44: The Argonauts, Jane the Virgin, 20 Feet From Stardom
This week on the pop culture podcast, we chat Maggie Nelson’s genre-defying memoir The Argonauts, TV series Jane the Virgin and the Oscar-winning documentary 20 Feet From Stardom.*/ This is SRSLY, the...
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Birth wars: the politics of childbirth
Women are encouraged to fight over the "best" way to give birth - but it's just another way to fracture any potential for female solidarity. Birth is divisive. It divides women from men, and women...
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The earth’s mantle is bouncing ten times faster than scientists realised
The layer beneath the earth's crust is moving in unexpected ways, which could have implications for everything from the oil and gas industry to climate change. Scientists have known that the earth’s...
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Google’s AI model has learned to write poetry using romance novels
The system could lead to the development of future AI capable of communicating with humans. In Mountain View, California, a legion of competitors is vying for first place in the race to develop a...
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David Cameron needs to understand that real LGBT equality costs money
Saying “homophobia is bad” and pretending to care about LGBT progress is exceptionally easy, and Tories are getting better and better at it. It’s International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia,...
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The government's higher education reforms meet old problems and miss new ones
A new legal framework has been needed for five years, but was blocked by the Lib Dems. On Monday, the Government published half a bookshelf worth of documents outlining their higher education...
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To save the young, Labour must attract the old
There is no more powerful word in the political lexicon than 'family', and with ruthless efficiency and discipline, it is a rhetorical device that has been mastered spectacularly by the Tories. I...
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Forgotten monarchs: Why do school history lessons only teach certain kings...
Or: why we should pay more attention to James VI & I. Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. Pretty much everyone who was educated in the UK will know which murderous,...
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What to look out for in the 2016 Queen's Speech
This one has been written with one eye on Labour voters and the other on David Cameron's legacy. This year’s Queen’s Speech is written in pencil – if the looming European referendum goes the wrong...
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Mourning and the media: the afterlife of Princess Diana
As part of the New Statesman's Monarchy Week, why we can't deal with a modern princess – and definitely not a dead one. My parents didn’t believe me when I told them Diana was dead. It was first thing...
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Queen’s Speech: David Cameron will struggle to secure the social legacy he wants
Even if he survives the EU referendum, the Prime Minister faces forbidding obstacles. Queen's speeches are rarely a reliable guide to the government's actions over the next year. The monarch's...
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