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“They cut, we bleed”: activists Sisters Uncut protest closures of women's...
“Our blood should not pay for our rape.” Over 500 domestic violence survivors and support workers processed through central London this weekend. The protest, staged by the feminist direct action group...
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Befriending barn owls - the spirits of the night
The Polish for “barn owl”, płomykówka, evokes the birds’ flame-like plumage - and their presence evokes old magic. Not long ago, at the cool end of an autumn afternoon, I met a woman on the street in...
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Telegraph fires environmental journalist Geoffrey Lean
Some have suggested the move is due to the newspapers' scepticism about man-made climate change. Geoffrey Lean, the respected enviromental commentator and reporter, has been "pushed out" of the...
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Jonathan Coe's Number 11 is a bitingly dark portrait of society
A spider’s web of money binds lives together in Coe's state-of-the-nation novel. PC Nathan Pilbeam is a copper with a difference. Just 24 years old and stuck out in Guildford (sorry, Guildford), he...
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SRSLY #20: Friends, Lovers, Divers
On the pop culture podcast this week, we talk albums from Joanna Newsom, Bjork and Grimes, Todd Haynes film Carol, and comedy web series Ex-Best.*/ This is SRSLY, the pop culture podcast from the New...
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Is this the beginning of the end for Northern Ireland’s abortion ban?
A High Court ruling has found it to be “incompatible with human rights law”. A High Court judge has today ruled that Northern Ireland’s ban on abortion constitutes a breach of human rights. Belfast...
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How the shadow cabinet forced Jeremy Corbyn not to change Labour policy on...
Frontbenchers made it clear that they "would not leave the room" until the leader backed down. Jeremy Corbyn had been forced to back down once before the start of today's shadow cabinet meeting on...
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Jeremy Corbyn challenged by Labour MPs to sack Ken Livingstone from defence...
Former mayor of London criticised at PLP meeting over comments on 7 July bombings. After Jeremy Corbyn's decision to give Labour MPs a free vote over air strikes in Syria, tonight's Parliamentary...
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Bomb Isil? That's exactly what they want
The government appears not to understand the nature of its enemy, warns Maria Norris. As MPs are set to vote on further airstrikes in Syria, it is difficult to shake off the feeling that the...
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Cameron needs to decide what he thinks about Russia
David Cameron's words suggest one thing, his actions quite another. David Cameron needs to decide whether he takes Russia seriously. He certainly talks a good game, calling Vladimir Putin to account...
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The New Statesman website hits record 20 million monthly page views
“Both editorially and financially, the New Statesman is in the best shape it has been for decades.” The New Statesman today (1 December) announced record monthly traffic to its award-winning politics...
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On World Aids Day, let’s end the stigma around HIV for good
Advances in treatment mean that being HIV positive is no longer a death sentence, but attitudes still lag behind. Stigma is a dangerous human construct, principally based on unfounded prejudices. None...
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Can’t afford to die: the rise of funeral poverty
The cost to councils of public health funerals has risen by 30 per cent in the past four years. Dying, as you'll know if you've ever planned a funeral, is an expensive business. If your relatives...
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After the “Tatler Tory” bullying scandal, we must ask: what is the point of...
A zealous desire for ideological purity, the influence of TV shows like House of Cards and a gossip mill ever-hungry for content means that the youth wings of political parties can be extremely toxic...
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Meeting the foreign fighters: how does Islamic State recruit thousands of...
To understand why IS draws thousands of would-be fighters from the West, we need to view the militant group through the lens of the fighters themselves. As we trudged through a deserted city park north...
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How that deleted lesbian scene in Love Actually should have gone
If the film was made in a more utopian 2003, this is what it would have looked like. Here are some things that “haven’t” made me cry in recent days: “She’s The One” by Robbie Williams coming on the...
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The government's motion on bombing Syria
Read the full text. That this house: Notes that Isil poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom Welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that Isil constitutes an...
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I'll vote against bombing Isis - but my conscience is far from clear
Chi Onwurah lays out why she'll be voting against British airstrikes in Syria. I have spent much of the weekend considering how I will vote on the question of whether the UK should extend airstrikes...
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Selfie sticks mask a bigger problem we have with each other – interaction
New services and products, like selfie sticks, ensure we never have to look each other in the eye, or ask for a tiny favour. Selfie sticks are the worst, there's no denying it. I was so close to...
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Labour on the Rock
The result of the Gibraltar election could hardly have been more decisive, says Guy Clapperton – so what’s going to happen next? In the end it wasn’t even close. The parties had postured against each...
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