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Training the health-care professionals of the future
As technology introduces fundamental changes to the way in which we deliver healthcare, what does this mean for the skillsets required by our doctors and nurses? The way in which medical and...
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Why it matters that Egyptians are being priced out of marriage
Expensive marriage arrangements and social conservatism put matrimony out of reach for many young people in Egypt, which has serious consequences. Marwa, which is not her real name, dated her husband...
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Is Ukraine finally getting to grips with its corruption problem?
Two years of war, illness and economic pain has followed Ukraine’s revolution, and reforms are still slow to arrive. If you want to know why Ukraine had a revolution, consider this: it has one of the...
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There is no evidence that curbing the Freedom of Information Act is justified
Why we need to protect FOI. In 2011, David Cameron wrote in The Telegraph: “In the years to come, people will look back at the days when government kept all its data – your data – in vaults and think...
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Gaffe or Guff: is Jeremy Corbyn messing up, or are the media being unfair?
Jeremy Corbyn is a victim of mainstream media attacks! Yes - sometimes. But he’s made mistakes too. So which is which? Refusing to sing the national anthemYouTube screengrab Just a few days after...
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The whole point of television is not just to watch it but to shout at it, too
What, you thought it was just you who hurled witty comments from your sofa, happily slagging things off? We all do; that’s the whole point. It’s funny how small moments from films can stick in your...
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When my child was born I got so high on morphine that I started talking about...
I looked at the baby, recited some Auden at him, decided he could look after himself, and asked for a book. August 2013: the heatwave. Ice was my pregnancy food, which I ate out of buckets; my body...
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The NS Podcast #124: How cities will save the world
The New Statesman podcast. This week, we talk about Corbyn's media gaffes, and explain how cities will save the world. (Helen Lewis, Anoosh Chakelian, George Eaton, Jonn Elledge, Barbara Speed) You...
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Labour's membership is moving further leftwards
Non-Corbyn supporters are leaving, MPs say. When Labour fought the general election in May it had around 200,000 full members. It now has more than 380,000, close to the 400,000 reached in 1997 and...
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Labour and the bomb: a history of schism
Labour has always been divided over Britain's nuclear deterrent - the latest row is just a case of history repeating. Labour's postwar history is inescapably linked with the nuclear deterrent.If it...
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The utopia of Isis: inside Islamic State’s propaganda war
Islamic State's cheerful media images seem incongruous to us in the West. But the group are committed to showing an "idealistic caliphate". The image is Instagram-worthy: handsome young men throw...
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Morning Call: The best from Gibraltar
A selection of the best articles about politics, business and life on the Rock from the last seven days. It’s obviously been a grim week for Europe, and Gibraltar’s security has come under scrutiny...
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Who is responsible for our health?
Overweight? Unhealthy? Unfit? It’s time people took more control of their health – but are they ready to do so? Whose responsibility is our health? Government? Employers? The food and drink industry?...
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Gunmen have taken 170 hostages at a hotel in Mali’s capital
Sources told Reuters that they shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“God is Great” in Arabic) as they entered the building. Gunmen have entered the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali's capital, and are holding...
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T S Eliot and the sexual wasteland
The poet had a tangled relationship with the erotic, once remarking that however intimate a love poem may be, it is meant to be overheard. For most of his lifetime T S Eliot appeared an austere and...
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MPs call for the “grossly disproportionate” criminal courts charge to be...
Parliament’s Justice Select Committee has raised “grave misgivings” about the new blanket court fee’s benefits. A new blanket court fee was slipped into legislation by the last government in April,...
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Through malevolence or incompetence, Jeremy Hunt has driven junior doctors to...
It takes a lot to make a doctor angry – by definition they must be calm under pressure. Yet the health secretary has managed it. It takes a lot to unite doctors. Put ten of us in a room together, and...
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Apple Music boss says women “find it very difficult” to choose music
The strange case of the Female Music Paralysis. Ladies, we've all been there. You fancy listening to something, and then, as you approach your laptop or phone, you become strangely paralysed. You...
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Are PCs finally overtaking traditional games consoles?
The US videogame company Valve is trying to control even more of the PC gaming market. Gamers have had different ways to get their fix over the years. Either by sitting on the sofa playing traditional...
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Thatcher’s top secret plan to destabilise the Ethiopian government
Newly-released documents show that in 1985, the PM wrote to the Foreign Office seeking action on the Marxist and pro-Soviet regime in Ethiopia. Towards the end of 1985, at the height of the worst...
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