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Momentum: what is it for, who can join, how does it work – and what’s Labour...
Inside the grassroots network stemming from Jeremy Corbyn's Labour leadership campaign. In the summer of 2015, the campaign to elect Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour party rapidly became far...
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How John McDonnell is trying to reframe the economic debate
The shadow chancellor warns that George Osborne is "opening up a massive deficit with the future" . One charge frequently laid against Jeremy Corbyn's leadership campaign was that it was too...
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EU membership is essential to continuing our strong Commonwealth ties
Britain’s ties with the countries of the Commonwealth are stronger if we remain in the European Union. Contrary to the arguments by those who believe Britain should leave Europe, the UK can preserve...
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“Socialism with an iPad” isn't as ludicrous as it sounds
Technology is changing the labour market faster than ever before. John McDonnell argues that it's the state's responsibility to make sure the outcome is fair for everyone. The speech shadow...
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In Katniss Everdeen, young people have found a heroine worth following
The Hunger Games is inspiring a generation to rise up, but in the knowledge that true revolutions don’t start until the killing stops.“Tonight, turn your weapons to the Capitol,” says Katniss...
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"The Wren and the Coconut": a poem by Clive James
I wonder if they still are, wonder why, / While barely knowing a blue tit from a bullfinch, / I’m so stuck on old military hardware. On a summer morning early, before six,I sit with coffee on my...
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Will Jeremy Corbyn be forced to give Labour MPs a free vote on Syria air...
The leader's stance is coming under increasing challenge. After Jeremy Corbyn became Labour leader, the assumption was that he would offer his MPs a free vote on air strikes against Isis in Syria....
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UN resolution brings UK air strikes in Syria closer
The body's unanimous support for military action strengthens David Cameron's position. The UN Security Council tonight voted unanimously for a resolution calling on all member states that can do so...
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Books of the year: the essential NS reading list
Our friends and contributors choose their favourite reading of 2015.*/ William Boyd A memoir, a poetry collection and a novel: all three genres delivered this year, in spades. David Hare’s The Blue...
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Orson Welles in middle age
Orson Welles: One-Man Band by Simon Callow shows how Welles was an often chaotic yet masterful film-maker in his middle age. By the end of the 1950s, Orson Welles was perilously fat. It hurt him to be...
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The UK cannot afford another Defence Review like the last one
The morale of our armed forces has plummeted on David Cameron's watch. The first duty of any government is to defend the nation and its people. The Paris attacks have demonstrated yet again the...
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Spending Review 2015: The economy should be the next big feminist issue
Challenging permanent austerity must be a feminist cause; the results of not doing so are already playing out in the lives of the poorest women. Last month, while the plan to cut tax credits was being...
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Are the north and even its best footie clubs on the slagheap for good?
The northern problem is not just economics, but social and cultural. Their wives take one look at the map and go, ugh, not living up there. I was there when the north arrived. Some believe it happened...
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Jesse Eisenberg’s attack on film critics misses the mark by ridiculing a...
The actor’s New Yorker piece, “An Honest Film Review”, picks on an already enfeebled archetype for cheap laughs. Ugly scenes last week when the New Yorker published a short story by the actor Jesse...
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In a world full of bland suits and identikit haircuts, thank God for Harry...
Finally, a mainstream risk-taker in men’s fashion. It’s the American Music Awards, a night dedicated to the most popular artists in music, and the red carpet is awash with your traditionally handsome...
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Brussels on lockdown as police make arrests and hunt for terror suspects
Sixteen people were arrested over the weekend in Belgium in anti-terror raids, and schools and transportation remain closed today as operations continue. Much of Brussels remains on lockdown for the...
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What is the future of physics?
If we are to see another technological leap like the one James Clerk Maxwell’s equations made possible, it will need to involve new physics. What might that look like? When we think about the future,...
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Adventures in Human Being is an entrancing roadmap of the flesh
For Gavin Francis, medicine is “a skeleton key to open doors ordinarily closed”, and his latest book is as illuminating as it is enjoyable. What do victims of domestic violence and the heroes of...
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The continuity between Jeremy Corbyn and Ed Miliband is greater than thought
The Labour leader has adopted more radical versions of stances taken under his predecessor. Ed Miliband gave Jeremy Corbyn greater backing than some shadow cabinet members when he appeared on the...
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The lost Marxists: what happened to the academics made jobless by communism’s...
Croatian journalist Damir Pilić meets the thinkers left adrift by the demise of the Soviet Union, and finds out what is now driving Marx back up the political agenda.*/ “The gap that has been left by...
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