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Ten years of David Cameron makes the case for Jeremy Corbyn better than anyone
It's been ten years of failure and deceit. This week David Cameron marked ten years as leader of the Conservative Party. Many were quick to congratulate him on his record and achievement, with the...
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Life on a low income is one of struggle, not luxury
As our research shows, the myths about the poor are just that, says John Hood. For the most part we’re told a pretty simple story on poverty. Those who are poor are feckless, idle, and wasteful, those...
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Think Donald Trump is a joke candidate? That’s what they said about Hitler
Educated, worldly German observers in the early 1930s could not believe that such a man could triumph over cultural and political liberalism. And yet.“January 30: Hitler Chancellor. What, up to...
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Jeremy Corbyn quotes Enver Hoxha at Labour party Christmas party
The Labour leader quoted the Albanian dictator at the party's Christmas bash, who he dubbed "a tough leader". Jeremy Corbyn stunned attendees at Labour's staff Christmas party by quoting Enver Hoxha,...
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Labour MPs should welcome the return of mandatory reselection
If they've put the work in, they've nothing to fear, right? A spectre is haunting the Labour Party at the moment – the spectre of deselection. You may more accurately know it as mandatory reselection...
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Cold comforts: the best children’s books of 2015
Get hold of these, and your holidays will be peaceful and merry. Christmas is crucial to the book trade but, in the case of children’s books, it has everything to do with a sense of wonder at the...
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Christmas sandwiches 2015: the good, the bad and the chocolate and cherry
We try loads of Christmas sandwiches so you don't have to. No festive tradition is, in my opinion, as important as the Christmas sandwich. They're available for at least a whole month before the...
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Higher fees, but more students
For all the anger over the new fees system, it is in many respects more progressive. On 9 December 2010, nearly 50,000 students marched into Parliament Square to protest as MPs voted on raising the...
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Missing from our debate over Syria: women
We need a gendered strategic approach, says Sophie Walker. I have been campaigning for the Women’s Equality Party since April, and a key focus of that campaigning has been on ending violence against...
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Why I am proud to be a Labour entryist
I will not let any Blairite tell me who a member of the Labour Party should be. I have just joined the Labour Party, and Momentum, because Tom Watson said that no anti-war protester, no Trotskyist, no...
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Why the In-Out referendum is so difficult to predict
At first glance, the psychology favours the status quo - but In has a tricky fight on its hand. There are two mindsets that matter in politics. The first is voters’: occasionally engaged, knowing...
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Former Scotland Secretary Alistair Carmichael MP cleared over memo leak...
The Lib Dem MP for Orkney & Shetland has been cleared by the election court over lying that he didn't leak a memo about the First Minister before the election. The election court has thrown out an...
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Slavoj Žižek: We need to talk about Turkey
The so-called “war on terror” has become a clash within each civilisation, in which every side pretends to fight Isis in order to hit its true enemy. There is something weird about the solemn...
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The story of Wordpress’s nonces
An etymological explanation. We all know what nonce means. It means paedophile, right? Someone, in the words of Oxford Dictionaries, "convicted of a sexual offence, especially against a child." So...
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Climate change is here, it's real, and we need to do something about it
The time for action is now. “The real cost of fossil fuels is seen in your lungs.” That’s been the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) message to the Paris COP21 climate summit. Maria Neira, director of...
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PMQs review: Angela Eagle leaves Labour MPs cheering as she fends off George...
The shadow first secretary of state amused and impressed at her debut. Angela Eagle rose for her first PMQs to the rare sound of enthusiastic cheering from the Labour benches. The shadow business...
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The New Statesman Cover | The clash of empires
A first look at this week's magazine.11-17 December 2015The clash of empires Cover Story The Clash of Empires John Bew on the long war in Syria and the return of great power rivalry.Mary Creagh:...
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The Prime Minister must make his mind up on airports
Residents and business are suffering due to David Cameron's indecision. Few policy problems have proved to be as intractable as providing new airport capacity, but the case for action is...
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The hard left is now operating within the Labour Party, but it doesn’t...
Individuals from smaller, hard-left parties with no loyalty to Labour are now operating in the party. Authorising military action is one of the most important decisions that an MP can take and not one...
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There is no way Star Wars: The Force Awakens will be as good as the prequels
It is universally accepted that The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith were incredibly disappointing. And yet everyone is wrong about that. We’ve been here before. This year...
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