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PMQs review: Jeremy Corbyn scores a win over tax credit cuts
The Labour leader told the PM: "This is not a constitutional crisis, this is a crisis for three million families in this country." Jeremy Corbyn had David Cameron on the ropes over tax credit cuts at...
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Urban sprawl: the supersized City on Fire from Garth Risk Hallberg
City on Fire is not bad, but it also is not great - and it might have been if it had been halved. It is usually bad form to focus a review on the length of the book under discussion. Conventionally,...
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Mohamed Soltan, the Egyptian activist who spent 400 days on hunger strike in...
The activist, who spent over 16 months on hunger strike in an Egyptian jail, was released earlier this year after giving up his Egyptian citizenship. Mohamed Soltan’s left arm is riven with scars. The...
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The New Statesman Cover | Israel: the Third Intifada?
A first look at this week's magazine.30 October-5 November 2015 issueIsrael: the Third Intifada?
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Why it’s time for the Right to reform modern capitalism
Capitalism has a track record of allieviating poverty. But if the government wants to highlight its successes, it needs to tame its worst excesses first.“Devotees of capitalism are often unduly...
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Jeremy Corbyn is good for politics - even if he loses in 2020
I'm not convinced Jeremy Corbyn can win in 2020. But I am convinced he'll change Britain - and Labour - for the better. Okay, let’s start with my honestly declared position on this. I don’t think that...
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Why has the trans woman Tara Hudson been sent to an all-male prison?
Tara Hudson must now endure cruelty because the authorities following the rulebook only read half of it. For trans people, that is the reality of justice in Britain today. It was Monday that the case...
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This artist gave out all his login details and passwords to the public....
Conceptual artist Mark Farid believes our online privacy is the only right we have left – and that’s why governments and companies are so keen to take it from us. Can you ever really escape your...
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Why are boundary changes bad for Labour?
New boundaries, a smaller House of Commons and the shift to individual electoral registration all tilt the electoral battlefield further towards the Conservatives. Why?The government won a victory in...
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Playing the endgame: is Daniel Craig making his final moves as James Bond in...
There's something to be said for this minimal, brooding Bond - but all the emblems of the end are there. Occasionally it has been rumoured that James Bond might go into therapy, or come out as gay, or...
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Leader: the House of Lords requires urgent reform
The peers' welcome intervention in tax credits cannot disguise that the Lords is an anachronism. Millions of households this week have reason to be grateful for the House of Lords. Its rejection of...
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Chris Patten on Margaret Thatcher: strength and self-delusion
The second volume of Charles Moore’s biography paints Thatcher as the most partisan and domineering British prime minister since the Second World War. Here, a former minister remembers her...
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The Virago/New Statesman Women’s Prize for Politics & Economics
Prize-winning author and journalist Gillian Tett to lead the search for a new generation of women non-fiction writers. Does the non-fiction book world have a gender problem? Look at prize shortlists,...
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“Two words: dog sofa” The Apprentice 2015 blog: series 11, episode 4
Pun and games at a pet show.WARNING: This blog is for people watching The Apprentice. Contains spoilers!Read up on episode 3 here.“Samuel Johnson,” muses Alan Sugar, flicking through an 18th-century...
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How George Osborne fell to earth
It was the Chancellor's refusal to acknowledge that there would be losers from tax credit cuts, let alone to compensate them, that proved his undoing. When George Osborne interviewed Margaret...
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Why doesn't the government think "compassion" is a British value?
The Department for Education is now insisting that British values are taught in schools - but the most important one of all is missing. You don't get more British than James Bond. On the big screen...
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What do we know about the Chilcot inquiry report, and when will it be published?
The report, which was commissioned in 2009, is set to be published next summer. When will it come out? The report is due to be published in the summer of 2016, a letter from John Chilcot on the Iraq...
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The US's trade warning to the UK is a hammer blow to EU opponents
Washington's hostility to a separate free trade deal increases the risk attached to exit. Many of the most fervent opponents of the EU are also among the most committed Atlanticists. Uncomfortably...
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David Cameron says the Conservatives are the party of equality - don't make...
It would be funny if it wasn't so tragic, says Jude Kirton-Darling. A ludicrous article written by the Prime Minister in the Guardian on Monday, claiming that "the Conservatives have become the party...
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State of play: why mobile phones make the best games consoles
As mobile gaming goes through a renaissance, you can become a gamer too I've always considered myself to be a gaming aficionado, but the meaning of that has changed in recent years. Because, like many...
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