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London has been empty for the entire month of August. What are we, French?
“I hate it,” I said. “I hate it more than I can say.” Have you all enjoyed your holidays? I ask you that in the most curmudgeonly and envious spirit. Let it not be said I am free of the baser, more...
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Meet Richard Murphy, “the man behind Corbynomics”
The accountant and tax justice campaigner explains how his ideas ended up in Jeremy Corbyn's economics plan. Which economist made his name blogging about the global financial crisis and got sucked into...
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Goodbye to Terry Pratchett, the only writer who ever truly conquered my inner...
Finishing The Shepherd’s Crown was a double sadness: not just goodbye to Terry Pratchett, but goodbye to a younger, less cynical version of myself. This is the season of goodbyes. At the weekend I...
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Parliament debate could go ahead as petition to accept more asylum seekers...
Parliament considers all petitions that get more than 100,000 signatures for a debate. A petition to allow more asylum seekers into the UK has reached over 100,000 signatures. This is the figure...
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Marc Maron: a conversation with the anxiety co-pilot
Now that the interview-based podcast WTF has had millions of downloads and featured guests from Iggy Pop and Barack Obama, what does its host Marc Maron want to say? Richard Pryor decided to talk about...
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Can Cameron maintain his refugee stance as he comes under attack from all sides?
Tory MPs, the Sun, Labour and a growing section of the public are calling on the PM to end his refusal to take "more and more". The disparity between the traumatic images of drowned Syrian children...
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If Corbyn becomes leader, what's left for the Greens?
The forward march of the Greens, halted? A Corbyn leadership will be a new challenge for the Green party, says Rupert Read. The seemingly unstoppable rise of Jeremy Corbyn toward the leadership of...
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Welcome to the new New Statesman website
We've had a makeover. We hope you like it! In the past five years, the New Statesman website has grown beyond all our expectations. In 2010, barely half a million readers a month were visiting it;...
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Why are refugees throwing themselves on train tracks in Hungary?
Hungarian authorities have stopped a train carrying refugees from Budapest. Hungarian police have stopped a train full of refugees bound for the Austrian border. Other passangers were taken off to...
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The NS Podcast #113: Europe's refugee crisis
Plus: Terry Pratchett's last Discworld novel. This week, we ask whether Cameron will respond to the growing refugee crisis in Europe, discuss the Labour leadership as the election grows ever closer,...
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Who was the boy on the beach?
Photos of a drowned Syrian child are dominating the front pages. Who was he, and how did he end up washed up on the Turkish coast?Contains a disturbing image. Britain’s conscience has been shaken this...
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The barbecue that shows that Jeremy Corbyn is inevitable
Labour's been a long time dying, says Neal Lawson. Just sometimes you spot something small and throw away which crystalizes something much bigger and really profound. It happened recently about the...
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We can do more about the refugee crisis - and we must
My own city of Liverpool stands willing and ready to welcome refugees - if the Home Secretary will say yes, says Liverpool's mayor Joe Anderson. The exodus of Syrian refugees desperately fleeing...
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Where Corbyn stands on the refugee crisis
The Labour leadership frontrunner calls for the UK to "offer a place of safety" but won't give a figure. Yvette Cooper led the political response to the refugee crisis with her passionate and...
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This is a refugee crisis, and it has always been a refugee crisis
If your country is in flames and your life is at risk, boarding a rickety, dangerous boat is a rational decision. We need to provide safer choices and better routes. Even those of us all too familiar...
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Women aren’t supposed to blame their foulest moods on their hormones. It’s...
It’s our job to play down the, “I’m pissy and want chocolate because I’m getting my period” thing as much as possible.“NEVER CALL ME AGAIN. EVER,” I bellow at some hapless cock dribble called Brian or...
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Amazon's unlikely role in the Calais relief efforts
Campaigners are using Amazon's wishlist feature - more commonly used for weddings and birthdays - to rally supplies for the thousands camped at Calais. Today and yesterday, relief efforts have sprung...
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Can non-voters win the next election for Labour?
Any Labour leader who pins their hopes on getting non-voters to the polling station will be defeated in 2020. Question: how can non-voters win the 2020 election for Jeremy Corbyn? Short answer: they...
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From "cockroaches" to campaigns: how the UK press u-turned on the refugee crisis
Harrowing photos of a drowned toddler washed up on a Turkish beach have made the front pages – and changed the attitude of Britain's newspapers.Contains distressing images. The UK press has united in...
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There are risks as well as opportunities ahead for George Osborne
The Chancellor is in a tight spot, but expect his political wiles to be on full display, says Spencer Thompson. The most significant fiscal event of this parliament will take place in late November,...
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