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What would Brexit mean for my pension?
I believe we are in a position not dissimilar to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: do we jump and hope it doesn’t kill us, or stay put and hope to dodge the bullets. Did you feel forgotten? I know I...
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EU referendum debate: Remain's ruthless assault on Boris could backfire
Turning the referendum into a vote on the most popular politician in the country may only embolden Leave. From the minute tonight's EU debate began it was "Get Boris". In a remarkable attack on her...
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Commons confidential: Ground control to Major Tim
Ukip splits, Tim Peake's gagging order and sniggering at a Downing Street spinner. I hear of another split at the top of Ukip after this month’s referendum, win or lose. The issue this time is ermine...
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Ban Ki-moon: “Accepting refugees is a win for everyone”
Gordon Brown talks to Ban Ki-moon.What is your vision of global citizenship? Many of the challenges we face are clearly ones that the governments and peoples of the world need to deal with...
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How to get to the basic income in a few easy steps
Andrew Harrop plots a path from here to there. Proposals to pay every adult a ‘basic income’ were back in the news this week, after John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, confirmed his interest in the...
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If Brexit happens, Jeremy Corbyn could face a leadership challenge
Labour MPs are preparing to pin the blame on their leader's "half-hearted" EU campaign.Should the UK vote to leave the EU, it is David Cameron’s leadership which most believe would soon be over. But...
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For the sake of peace and jobs, the EU we in Ireland most want is one that...
How Brexit would threaten the UK’s relationship with Ireland. In a few days the British electorate goes to the polls to decide whether the UK should leave an alliance of which it has been an important...
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What makes a song original? Ed Sheeran, Matt Cardle, and the blurred lines of...
There will never be a perfect system for determining the legal originality of a song. What makes a song original? It’s a question that has preoccupied music fans, artists and copyright experts alike in...
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What I got wrong: Seven writers on changing their minds
From supporting AV to championing Jeremy Corbyn, NS writers on decisions they regret. In 2013, I asked seven New Statesman writers to name something they had got wrong - and to explain how they had...
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How Facebook could sway the EU referendum – while remaining politically neutral
Twitter and Uber have also jumped on the bandwagon. When it was announced that voters would have a whole extra day to register to vote in the EU referendum, thanks to the Gov.uk site crashing under...
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In Where to Invade Next, Michael Moore lays bare what America gets painfully...
Plus: eloquent storytelling around the refugee crisis in Fire at Sea. Michael Moore has been so effective in documentary that most people have forgotten his solitary excursion into fiction...
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To save Britain's EU membership, the party is rallying around John McDonnell
The shadow chancellor's Tory Brexit line has been picked up by some unusual allies. Britain’s In-Out referendum will won and lost among Labour voters. That’s why Vote Leave are going hard on their...
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Labour needs to make a bigger argument for Remain
Rather than focusing narrowly on workers' rights, the party must talk more about jobs and living standards. With just a few days to go, the Labour Party must make a distinctive social democratic...
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In the BBC’s Reg, we see the story of the man who took on Tony Blair over Iraq
Plus: gently but genuinely funny sitcom Mum. Kevin Doyle, the brilliant British actor, has enjoyed a good run of late, his stint as Joseph Molesley in Downton Abbey having been followed by the role of...
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No One’s Little Girl: what it was like to be a woman in the man’s world of punk
Women who were in bands during the punk era question the nostalgia surrounding the genre.“I’m so glad I’m not there anymore!” says Gina Birch who, with Anna da Silva, founded punk band The Raincoats...
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Why no white actor should play Persian poet Rūmī
Leonardo DiCaprio is a great actor, but this is terrible casting. Hollywood writer David Franzoni has said his new project – a biopic on Persian poet Rūmī - will challenge Muslim stereotypes in...
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From Ramadan to the 5:2, the surprising science of fasting
Abstaining from food sounds intimidating and debilitating. In fact, intermittent fasting can help you feel healthier and live longer. Ramadan started this week. It’s a month in which Muslims all over...
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You are the quarry: tuneful vibrations in a Tuscan marble quarry
Radio transformed this frontier region of chestnut forests leading up to the Apennines. To the province of Massa in the Lunigiana – the north-western tip of Tuscany. Out of the high mountains, five...
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The EU is undemocratic and run in the interests of business. But it’s our...
The reason why nobody in either the Leave or the Remain camp can come up with a strong and positive story is that right now there is no strong, positive story to tell.‘‘Brexit” is an ugly, embarrassing...
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The love affair between science and poetry
Why these two subjects are not as different as we might think and the science of what happens in the brain when we read poetry Poetry and science seem like opposites – but the two have long been...
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