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What's Labour Together?
We're the new grouping for everyone in the party - and you're invited. Jeremy Corbyn won Labour’s leadership election with a powerful mandate for change. The excitement generated by his campaign...
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Piercing the "silos" in government is challenging – but necessary
The Silo Effect: Why Putting Everything in Its Place Isn’t Such a Bright Idea by Gillian Tett gives an insight into a common, damaging phenomenon. Readers of the Financial Times will already know that...
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Women can’t have it all – because the game is rigged
Work-life balance is a myth. It’s time for women to stop blaming themselves and start demanding change. Can women have it all? That this is still a major ethical dilemma of mainstream feminism shows...
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As a fellow expatriate, I recognise Bill Bryson's grumpy paean to England
The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island recreates the jouney of Bryson's 20-year-old bestseller. Bill Bryson is a wonder. Here is a man who can write a page about ordering a cheese...
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Why did the cost of tax credits go from £1bn in 1999 to £30bn today?
Spoiler alert: it didn't. Supporters of the government's cuts to tax credits claim that the cost has increased beyond expectations. Here's George Osborne in the summer of 2015:"The original Tax...
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Even the right wing press is against George Osborne's plan to cut tax credits
The Sun and the Spectator are both opposing the Chancellor's proposals, illustrating the likely impact of the cuts on the population. The Sun and the Spectator have come out against George Osborne’s...
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Like never before, the London mayoral election is going to be about housing
Housing is set to be the battleground as Sadiq Khan and Zac Goldsmith compete to see who can call City Hall "home" in 2016. Whenever we speak to people up and down Britain about London, they talk...
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The problem with men participating in feminism? There is no risk – but plenty...
From Reclaim the Night to abortion politics, men's participation in feminist spaces too frequently comes with no real cost. I didn’t go on my local Reclaim the Night march last year. I wanted to, but...
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Labour must organise on the ground to start beating the Tories at Westminster
Victories in the bubble won't shake the Tories unless we organise, warns James Elliott. “Oppositions don’t win elections, governments lose them”, as the saying goes. You could be forgiven for thinking...
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How and why central Paris shut down its last major refugee camp
The disused Jean-Quarré school in Northern Paris, which became a key refugee camp housing over 1,300 people in the summer, has been closed. The derelict building of the Jean-Quarré school in Northern...
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What is a statutory instrument, and why has it put the government on course...
The measure has put the Conservatives on course for a defeat in the Lords this afternoon. The government could face an embarrassing defeat in the House of Lords over cuts to tax credits later today,...
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Talk Talk hack: how safe is our data in the hands of big companies?
The company's CEO told the Sunday Times that customer data “wasn't encrypted, nor are you legally required to encrypt it”. Last week's cyber attack on mobile and internet provider Talk Talk has been...
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Here's why I just helped to shut down Britain's largest coal mine
Coal is dirty, dangerous and bad for our environment, argues Guy Shrubsole. A group of friends and I have just shut down England’s largest opencast coal mine. Production has ceased and no coal is...
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"Field": a new poem by Fiona Sampson
"And through its stems the creatures/track their errands" ***Fiona Sampson’s next collection, The Catch, will be published in 2016. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Here's why the Labour party need Bernie's List
The Conservatives have 23 per cent of the ethnic minority vote and 18 MPs. Labour got 65 per cent - and have 24. The Tories claim they are the Workers’ Party. They also want to be the Black People’s...
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How the tampon tax is bringing together feminists and eurosceptic Tories
A proposed amendment to the finance bill has forged an unlikely alliance. It’s that time again: the one where the tax on sanitary products is headline news, and everyone can once more be on the...
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SRSLY #16: Lorde, lobsters and lonely hearts
On the pop culture podcast this week, we discuss This is SRSLY, the pop culture podcast from the New Statesman. Here, you can find links to all the things we talk about in the show as well as a bit...
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House of Lords defeats the government over tax credit cuts
Peers vote to block cuts unless the Tories offer full compensation to the low-paid for at least three years. In a dramatic assertion of its authority, the House of Lords has defeated the...
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Thinking by post: Isaiah Berlin's letters reveal how his ideas still hold...
One of the great liberal thinkers of the post-war period, Affirming: Letters 1975-97 makes clear the continuing relevance of Berlin's thought. In 1989 Isaiah Berlin celebrated his 80th birthday. Radio...
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Invisible men: why you will never have your coffee served by a middle-aged bloke
You do not see men my age serving people any more - unless it is in the haberdashery department of John Lewis. This column does not, on the whole, suffer from insomnia. If it has a sleep-related...
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