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Is Labour ready to elect a woman as leader? The evidence suggests not
Recent history shows that whatever the other variables are, Labour women struggle to win internal party elections. There’s going to be a lot of argument over the next few months about who can win...
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Philip Hammond has only postponed the Punishment Budget
The new Chancellor has limited tools at his disposal. Before the EU referendum, the then-Chancellor George Osborne warned a vote for Brexit could mean a punishment Budget. On 15 June, he told the...
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Labour suspends local party meetings to avoid intimidation – will it work?
In an unprecedented move, CLP meetings have been stopped until the leadership election is over. The Labour party has suspended local meetings of its constituency branches until its leadership election...
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It wasn’t my time on death row that changed me – but the strange girl with...
I was in my early twenties, in a lesbian haven, spending the days after my internship musing on the beach. Two decades ago, when I was in my early twenties, I won a scholarship to work in America...
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Theresa May’s first Cabinet at a glance
The new PM promised to fight against injustice. Are her ministers up to the task? The new Prime Minister promised to fight against the “burning injustice” of inequality, and racial and class...
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Theresa May's ruthlessness gives her the cabinet she wants
The new Prime Minister's appointments show greater boldness than many of her predecessors. Of all the powers exercised by a British prime minister, few are greater than that of patronage. Cabinet...
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Anohni explores a complex relationship between the self, politics and pop
Anohni’s latest project, the album Hopelessness, is the most explicitly political work she has produced over her career. Pop is having a political moment. From the specific thoughts on the state of...
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The Department of Energy and Climate Change has been scrapped – how scared...
In a major departmental change, the government has axed DECC and folded the brief into a new, expanded Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Climate change has disappeared! Not from...
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Middle-class university graduates will decide the future of the Labour Party
Three-quarters of Labour Party members are ABC1 voters. We don’t yet know whether it will be Angela Eagle or Owen Smith, or maybe both of them, who ends up running against Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour...
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84 killed in Bastille Day lorry attack in the south of France
A lorry ploughed into a crowd of people celebrating in Nice, in what officials say was a terrorist attack. More than 80 people have been killed, and 130 injured, after a lorry drove at speed through a...
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What the bookies know about horse-racing - and politics
My week, including the social mix at Newmarket and how to handle the worst name-droppers. The bookmakers have been much in the news recently, not least because a lot of my fellow members of the Remain...
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One month on, we've already forgotten the lessons of Jo Cox
Amid a political whirlwind, the murdered MP has been laid to rest. Brexit, a prime minister resigning, an attempted leadership coup, a new Cabinet – 16 June seems like a distant era. But Jo Cox, the...
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Labour may block supporter applications to vote if they’ve called an MP...
“Terms of abuse that will not be tolerated include (but are not limited to): traitor, scum or scab.” NEC guidelines leaked to the Morning Star on Thursday seem to show that supporter applications to...
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What do we use our hands for today (and why does it matter)?
Two new books reveal intriguing aspects to today's body politics: Darian Leader's Hands and Fay Bound Alberti's This Mortal Coil. You need hands, Max Bygraves sang, to hold someone you care for. But...
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I hitchhiked across Brexit Britain - this is what I learnt
Flora Neville relied on the kindness of strange voters to reach John O'Groats. I was standing in a service station outside Bodmin in Cornwall, holding a sign that reads "John O' Groats", when Mr...
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What would make Brexit negotiations better? Here are 8 simple suggestions
... unfortunately, one of them is this: stop using the word "Brexit". What would it take to negotiate a new trade deal with the EU? Below is an 8-point plan.1. Put our best, world-renowned diplomats...
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How Jeremy Corbyn can realistically abolish student tuition fees
The Labour leader has been quiet on tuition fees, but he doesn't need to be. The English university finance system is a disaster. Young people now face typical debts of £44,000 on graduation,...
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How al-Qaeda inspired the Nice terror attack
The terror group recommended that jihadis use “a pickup truck as a mowing machine” in crowded locations. The most notable aspect of the terror attack on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice at 10.10 pm...
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The NS Podcast #162: Reshuffle Special
The New Statesman podcast. Emergency Politics Podcast! Stephen Bush is joined by NS deputy web-editor, Anoosh Chakelian, and Staggers editor, Julia Rampen, to discuss Theresa May's new cabinet...
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Rushing to link attacks like Nice to a wider network of Islamic extremism...
Unfortunately, most of the official responses reinforce an unfounded belief about two civilisations clashing. Another week, another senseless terrorist attack. It is too soon to make clear sense of...
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