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Netflix’s Stranger Things offers an original alternative to reboot culture
Kids can’t get enough of the stuff they love, and grown-ups can’t get enough of the things they loved as kids.*/ “Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa – that’s not it, is it?” In a lamp-lit basement in...
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The NS Podcast #165: Policies, predictions and house prices
The New Statesman podcast. This week, Stephen is away but Helen is joined by our deputy web editor, Anoosh Chakelian, and Staggers editor, Julia Rampen, to discuss the Labour leadership contest and...
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Owen Smith vs Jeremy Corbyn: four things we learnt in the first Labour...
Owen Smith and Jeremy Corbyn went head-to-head for the first time. Here's what we found out. Phew! The first of Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith's hustings is over. Livestreamed on the Labour Party...
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Calling Jeremy Corbyn's supporters a cult? You might as well call us stupid
Alienating people you might need to win over is a foolish strategy. Jeremy Corbyn was right when he said that voting in an election is about taking sides. Labour’s upcoming leadership election is no...
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What is accelerationism?
If you're befuddled by leftie political terminology, you're not alone. The Staggers dons a tin hat and investigates.Accelerationism (n) Accelerationism is the idea that capitalism, or various...
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On the road in Rio: “These are the Olympic Games of exclusion”
With the Olympics about to open in Rio de Janeiro, people whose communities have been relocated and who have been overlooked in the favelas are reluctant to celebrate. If there were ever a symbol of...
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The slacker’s sanctuary: in Berlin, without a job or a plan
A Brexit exile in Berlin tries to adjust to life, and heads to German lessons alongside Polish workers, fashionable Swedes and Syrian refugees. Just over a month ago, I quit my job in London, packed...
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Sport’s gender pay gap: why are women still paid less than men?
Steph Houghton, the best-paid female English player, earns around £65,000 a year, while Wayne Rooney receives £300,000 a week. In March, male and female cricket teams from across the world descended...
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Shami Chakrabarti’s peerage underlines the problem with the House of Lords
A non-party political nomination process could still nominate her – but on more transparent grounds. Shami Chakrabarti should be an excellent addition to the Lords. She is a hugely respected civil...
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Jeremy Corbyn's media strategy is smarter than his critics realise
Major political campaigns in the past created their own media. The issue of media bias now sits at the heart of the Labour leadership election and, beyond that, at the heart of debates about whether...
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What Labour MPs still need to learn from Jeremy Corbyn
The Labour leader has saved the party from meaningless management. In some Labour circles, the decision to vote for Jeremy Corbyn is treated as a dereliction of duty, one of a ship’s captain watching...
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Remembering the personal side of the Olympics, in the pool and out
There was a lot to be learned from Eric the Eel, kicking and flailing his way through the Sydney Games. Until the 2012 Olympics, I didn’t realise that the schedule for every Games is roughly the same:...
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Using anti-Semitism as a political football is damaging for both Labour and...
Stop politicising anti-Semitism, or it will become even more embedded in the left of British politics than it was before. I watched the Labour party leadership hustings on Thursday night and was...
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Makeovers and M&Ms: how does The Princess Diaries look 15 years later?
Being a princess never looked so boring. It’s 15 years since The Princess Diaries first hit cinemas – 15 years of singing the Genovian national anthem, “SHUT UP!” at inappropriate occasions, and...
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Manchester's Labour mayoral candidate needs more than a famous name
Voters still want concrete policies for their city. Office workers flooding out of Starbucks, chuggers leaping into the paths of mums with prams and a near-constant construction site which is set to...
View ArticleWord of the week: Chummours
Each week The Staggers will pick a new word to describe our uncharted political and socioeconomic territory. After David Cameron named his candidates for peerages, the word of the week is:Chummours...
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The great earth-mover: just how capable was Capability Brown?
It's time we re-examined the legacy of England's greatest gardener. This year, somewhat overshadowed by the quatercentenary of Shakespeare’s death, marks the tercentenary of the birth of the landscape...
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Exclusive: Jeremy Corbyn accused of ignoring leaked report on Labour's "rural...
Sources say party leader refused to acknowledge highly critical internal analysis. Labour's Rural ProblemAmong the dismal results for Labour at the last general election was the party's performance in...
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The East End from the inside
John Claridge’s intimate photographs from the 1960s capture a lost world of wonder and possibility.*/ At the age of eight, John Claridge saw a plastic camera in the prizes at an East End funfair and...
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Owen Smith to promise "new industrial revolution" and vote on Brexit
The Labour leadership challenger is expected to criticise economic policy since the 1980s. British voters must have a chance to prevent the country becoming "the sick man leaving Europe", Labour...
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