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Meet the new Top Gear – unfortunately, same as the old Top Gear
Top Gear is still aimed at the middle-aged bore who likes to tell you which route they took to X and the traffic on the way to Y. Plus: Versailles. Toot, toot! In case you haven’t heard, the new Top...
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The NS Podcast #151: Vice, votes and videogames
The New Statesman podcast. This week, Helen and Stephen get to grips with Jeremy Corbyn’s Vice News documentary. Together they probe Labour’s media strategy and query whether Ed Miliband should come...
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The delay of No Man’s Sky, a scorned Kotaku journalist, and the paranoia of...
Online abuse coupled with the videogame industry’s intense focus on pre-release hype has nurtured a bizarrely tribal fandom, dedicated to games they've never played. When a highly anticipated...
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Gordon Brown's book shows the UK can survive outside Europe – but can...
Britain: Leading, Not Leaving argues that Britain's leadership could help Europe became a safer place with a stronger economy. In the autumn of 2014, Gordon Brown made a significant late intervention...
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Whit Stillman on Love & Friendship, his postmodern love letter to Jane Austen
Austen’s work has already been a launch-pad for literary spin-offs, but Stillman's film – and accompanying novel – do something intriguingly new. When a director associated with the modern world...
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Momentum-backed Rhea Wolfson's NEC failure could damage the Labour right in...
Moderates may have stopped the left wing candidate getting a place, but they will suffer for it in future. Labour’s rulebook is an arcane document so full of clauses and subclauses it is hard to make...
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When I'm not cleaning windows: the joy of being in a part-time band
With it harder than ever to make money from music, more and more bands are working ordinary jobs by day to do what they love by night. Another gig over. After slinging instruments and amplifiers in...
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Why Radiohead are at the top of a game no one else knows how to play
Watching the band at The Roundhouse, it was easy to see why Radiohead are still so successful 25 years into their career. Like nature’s annual flying ant day, Radiohead’s infrequent live appearances...
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Immortality complex: in search of life after death through cryonics
A new Don DeLillo novel explores the implications of cryonics, highlighting the impact similar endeavours could have on the real world. The Convergence – a remote compound enshrined in the barren...
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Welcome to "Tax Freedom Day": the right's latest con
Although the day is intended as a shill for smaller government, it can teach us something too. Today the Adam Smith Institute marks this year’s “Tax Freedom Day”. For those unfamiliar with the...
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Ancient Egypt’s perfectly preserved underwater cities, and how they were...
Two sunken cities have been found at the mouth of the river Nile. Two ancient cities have been discovered, perfectly preserved, at the bottom of the Nile. But how do you go about finding a lost city...
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A reluctant Remainer, the end of border controls and why it is healthy to...
First thoughts on the week's news, from sheepish Etonians to my EU referendum prediction. Since I shall be abroad on referendum day, I have already cast my vote for Remain. I did so without...
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To lead on international development, it is vital that Britain does not...
The idea that Britain is an island that can insulate itself from the fallout that comes with failing states, armed conflict, and poverty is an anachronism. We’ve had everything from Hitler and house...
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The new Irish band comedy Sing Street is no “poor man’s Commitments” – it’s...
Director John Carney has a lighter touch and also a greater sense of depth and poignancy. Several people of my acquaintance have avoided seeing the new Irish comedy Sing Street because of suspicions...
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“You spend a lot of time yelling at each other”: Sian Heder on the Orange is...
The writer on making her first feature-length movie, motherhood and her lifelong friendship with Zachary Quinto. When Orange is the New Black writer Sian Heder first moved to Los Angeles to pursue a...
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Why we need Labour Together
This new group will be instrumental in winning back power. We can’t repeat the lessons of our recent losses enough. Otherwise we are doomed to repeat the losses themselves. It is striking how, when I...
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Pimp State makes it clear our laws on prostitution are not working – so how...
Kat Banyard's new book make a strident case against the sale of sex. Should buying and selling sex be illegal? When the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) surveyed the parties before the last...
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Boxer Muhammad Ali has died aged 74
He was taken into hospital with respiratory problems earlier this week, following a lifetime of sport and The once-world champion boxer Muhammad Ali died last night aged 74, after going into hospital...
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Advice columns are thriving – but are they actually doing any good?
Studies show that we often ignore the advice of others even when we've asked for it.“Sorry to ask for advice and then, like, disregard it,” a female journalist friend said to me the other day, after a...
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Why football is broken – and how we can fix it
Two new books show how the Premier League and Hillsborough helped make the beautiful game ugly. Football is broken. This would appear an odd thing to assert at the end of such a thrilling Premier...
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