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“Haul”: a poem by John McCullough
In Minnesota, they reeled a sixty ton house / over ice: a caught fish.*/ In Minnesota, they reeled a sixty ton house over ice: a caught fish. The tow truck eased forward, a steel cable stretched and...
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Why Decca Aitkenhead’s tale of grief is also a coming-of-age story
Her memoir All at Sea relates how, after her husband drowned, Aitkenhead was forced to confront the meaning of family, faith and life. Few of us expect to die while on a family holiday. Some years ago...
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Nine quick, effective ways to protect your privacy online
Hacks and phishing attacks are on the rise. We've asked privacy experts for the tricks they use to stay safe online. On Friday, hundreds of millions of MySpace account details, including passwords,...
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Don't celebrate too soon, Brexiters: history favours Remain
Movement to Leave in the polls at this point in the cycle is what we'd expect to see, says Peter Kellner. The Brexit camp should enjoy its current slight bounce in the polls, for it may not last. If...
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The unique UK-US relationship depends on avoiding Brexit
My America trip revealed profound unease over the risk of Britain leaving the EU, writes shadow minister Conor McGinn. Talking to congressmen on Capitol Hill, military strategists at Annapolis and...
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The chaos in Venezuela is being welcomed at the top
While the population struggles to survive, anti-Imperialist bombast is the default response of a government that is facing growing unrest.“Venezuela is threatened,” thundered the country’s defence...
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I voted to leave in 1975. But in 2016, I'm voting to stay in Europe
Those who would be celebrating if we left the EU include such unsavoury characters as Putin, Trump, Farage and a bunch of climate-change deniers with no intention of working towards a better future for...
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“Priti Patel, surely a contradiction in her name”: union leader Tim Roache in...
The head of the GMB union is under fire for his remark about the employment minister. A blow for the Remain campaign as one of their number makes a sexist comment about Priti Patel, the employment...
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What happens if England votes to Leave the EU but the UK votes Remain?
How the referendum result could trigger a surge in English nationalism. For years, the possibility that Scotland could vote to remain in the EU while the rest of the UK votes to leave has been...
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Abortion and Northern Ireland: the human rights abuse that we all ignore
The neglect of women's rights in Northern Ireland is a scar on the United Kingdom's conscience. In April, a young woman from Belfast was prosecuted under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861...
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Is the Remain campaign's Project Fear losing its mojo?
The Scottish referendum and the European referendum are more different than the Remain campaign would like, says Laurence Janta-Lapinski. In the past week there has been much talk of how the Leave...
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Facebook isn't listening through your phone, but others could be
It's relatively easy to hack into a phone's microphone and listen remotely - just ask the UK government. In October 2015, Edward Snowden told Panorama that GCHQ was hacking our phones using smurfs....
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The Investigatory Powers Bill is the stop-and-search of the digital age
Just like stop-and-search, the Snoopers' Charter will target minorities - and do nothing to make us safer, warns Diane Abbott. Under section 60 – the order that empowers British police to stop and...
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Labour must not let the Brexiters turn the EU referendum into a right-wing coup
The Leavers' libertarian ideology would mean a bonfire of social, environmental and legal rights. The clear and unequivocal view of the Labour Party is that, whatever its shortcomings, we must vote to...
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Rather than income or savings, should we tax people on what they spend?
Those who have been lucky in life should pay more tax. As such, the proposals Robert H Frank makes in Success and Luck are less radical than they sound. “Luck is a component that a lot of people in...
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Is the EU attempting to protect the Eritrean dictatorship?
EU plans to try and stop the flow of refugees from Eritrea are causing officials to downplay a UN report into potential crimes against humanity by the regime. The European Union appears set on...
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SRSLY #46: Peaky Blinders, Mustang, 30 Rock
On the pop culture podcast, we discuss BBC crime drama Peaky Blinders, the Turkish-French film Mustang and Tina Fey sitcom 30 Rock. This is SRSLY, the pop culture podcast from the New Statesman. Here,...
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Why are there triple brackets around names on social media?
What started as a trolling mechanism is now a gesture of defiance. Within the past two days, something strange has happened to usernames on Twitter: user after user has added three sets of brackets...
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Does the outrage over the Stanford rape case do anything to help victims?
We can be angry about the appalling case of Brock Allen Turner, just as we have been angry so many times before. But it doesn’t stop men wanting to rape us. In her 1989 polemic Misogynies, Joan Smith...
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Vote Leave or be attacked: Nigel Farage finds a new low
Nigel Farage's toxic intervention in the European debate shows why the Women's Equality Party is needed It’s just under three weeks until the EU referendum vote and right on cue the political parties...
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