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Labour to strip "abusive" registered supporters of their vote in the...
The party is asking members to report intimidating behaviour - but is vague about what this entails. Labour already considered blocking social media users who describe others as "scab" and "scum" from...
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A renaissance of conductorless orchestras reveals the limits of traditional...
What could the modern counterparts of the first conductor-free orchestras, once a socialist utopian vision, teach our politicians today? Moscow, 1922. In the bitterly cold first months of the year,...
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Northern Ireland is another Brexit circle Theresa May must square
The Prime Minister's promise to avoid border controls could collide with the imperative of limiting EU immigration. For much of the EU referendum, Theresa May shrewdly adopted the low profile of a...
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“They pay me in Bitcoin”: What it’s like to work as an escort in the digital age
Groupon photoshoots, SEO, and what spying and sex work have in common. Navigating the market as a sex worker isn’t easy. In the UK, the act of prostitution itself is legal, but all sorts of related...
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Cabinet audit: what do Theresa May’s new hires mean for government?
The New Statesman team looks at the politics and policy behind the new Prime Minister’s cabinet appointments. Liam Fox, International Trade Secretary Only Nixon, it is said, could have gone to China....
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BHS is Theresa May’s big chance to reform capitalism – she’d better take it
Almost everyone is disgusted by the tale of BHS. Back in 2013, Theresa May gave a speech that might yet prove significant. In it, she declared: “Believing in free markets doesn’t mean we believe that...
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Sarah Champion wants to un-resign and join Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet again
The MP is understood to have emailed asking for her job back. Sarah Champion, MP for Rotherham, is to rejoin the shadow cabinet less than a month after her dramatic resignation. On 28 June, in the...
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10 times Nicola Sturgeon nailed what it's like to be a Remain voter post-Brexit
Scotland's First Minister didn't mince her words. While Westminster flounders, up in Holyrood, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has busied herself trying to find a way for Scotland to stay in the...
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Could Jeremy Corbyn still be excluded from the leadership race? The High...
Labour donor Michael Foster has applied for a judgement. If you thought Labour's National Executive Committee's decision to let Jeremy Corbyn automatically run again for leader was the end of it,...
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Wrists, knees, terrible rages – I felt overwhelmed when Barry came to see me
I teach my registrars to be aware how a consultation is making them feel: that can give valuable clues to the patient’s own emotional state. To begin with, it seemed that Barry’s wrists were the...
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Friedrich Nietzsche, the conqueror with the iron hand
Gavin Jacobson considers the great philosopher’s plan for society as revealed in Nietzsche’s Great Politics by Hugo Drochon. In 1893 Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche returned to her mother’s adopted home...
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Back to the future – mankind’s new ideas that aren’t new at all
Rethink: the Surprising History of New Ideas by Steven Poole reviewed. When Steven Poole writes a book review, he likes to lie to himself. His only conscious decision is to jot down a few notes as the...
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Why do the words “soup, swoop, loop de loop” come to mind every time I lift a...
It’s all thanks to Barry and Anita. A while ago I was lending a friend the keys to our house. We keep spare keys in a ceramic pot I was given years ago by someone who made it while on an art-school...
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: a jukebox musical without the music
The new play set in JK Rowling's wizarding world is a nostalgia trip. “Jukebox musicals” have been around for decades, and they are unfairly maligned. For every horror (I write as someone who sat...
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Watch: Lame Bernie brocialists boo mentions of Hillary Clinton as they’d...
Ardent Bernie Sanders fans unsurprisingly feel privileged enough to denounce the prospect of a Democratic win at the Democratic National Convention. Some Bernie Sanders supporters at the Democratic...
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In defence of expertise: it’s time to take the heart out of “passionate”...
What we need is cool logic. We are living through a bonfire of the experts. During the EU referendum campaign, Michael Gove explained that people had had enough of them. A few weeks later, his fellow...
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Michelle Obama's powerful speech demolishes Donald Trump without even...
This is one speech he won't be able to steal. After her stirring speech at the Democratic Convention, Michelle Obama can be sure of one thing - Melania Trump won't be able to copy it. Obama, like her...
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Meet Captain Marvel – the feminist Air Force officer-turned-superhero set to...
AKA Carol Danvers: the “overtly feminist heroine” modelled on Gloria Steinem. At San Diego’s Comic Con this weekend, a slew of superhero movie trailers were released: Doctor Strange, Justice League,...
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The joy of only winning once: why England should be proud of 1966
We feel the glory of that triumphant moment, 50 years ago, all the more because of all the other occasions when we have failed to win. There’s a phrase in football that I really hate. It used to be...
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Theresa May enjoys the honeymoon bounce Jeremy Corbyn can only dream of
It's back to October 2009 in the polls. Back in October 2009, The Telegraph reported that backbench MPs were planning a coup against their unpopular leader, Gordon Brown. The simmering discontent...
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