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As Momentum restricts meetings, how will Left Unity adapt to the Corbyn era?
Now Jeremy Corbyn is Labour leader, the new socialist party launched by Ken Loach in 2013 is struggling to define itself.“A softer, more hipsterish form of hard-left socialism.” This is Labour...
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World ends as Donald Trump discovers “respected columnist” Katie Hopkins...
The devil finds his advocate. That’s it, ladies and gentlemoles. It’s time to switch off the internet, dive into a bunker, and prepare for the end. For two nuclear blond bombshells of hatespeech have...
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Beginning of the end for Chavismo
Latin America's populist tide appears to be receeding. Perhaps the most surprising thing about the parliamentary elections in Venezuela on 6 December was not that the ruling United Socialist Party of...
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Why Marine Le Pen’s surge is no surprise
Marine Le Pen's FN party is close to regional power. It is rare that identical front pages appear in Le Figaro, the voice of conservative France, and L’Humanité, the French Communist Party daily....
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Labour's crisis in Northern Ireland
The party's Northern Irish branch has rebelled against the leadership, raising the prospect of a split. Trouble is brewing for Labour in Northern Ireland, after local members there have voted to defy...
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Why the UK needs increased investment in healthcare tech
Advances in medical technologies offer great potential to our health service, but they can require many years of investment and R&D before they hit the market. The government is taking steps to...
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NS#127: Rhetoric, Racism and Reform
This week's New Statesman podcast explores how Momentum is transforming British politics, and the impact of Donald Trump's anti-Muslim remarks. This week we discuss the Left-wing grassroots movement,...
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Watch: Jeremy Corbyn sings "Happy birthday" to flood victim
The Labour leader turned to song to cheer up the woman, whose home in Cockermouth has been flooded. Labour's Jeremy Corbyn sings Happy Birthday to flood victim during his visit to Cumbria...
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It's time to move on Tony, the rest of us have
Tony Blair's account of his record is very different to that of CWU members, says Dave Ward. With Tony Blair understandably defending his own record, CWU members who I represent will think back to...
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“All the joy and none of the downsides”: London’s healthy chicken shop
Chicken Town is cutting calories and keeping costs low to challenge Tottenham's chicken shops. "I’d give it an 11 out of ten,” eight-year-old Fenet tells me, looking thoughtfully at the piece of...
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David Cameron's EU renegotiation is failing but will it matter?
The PM's odyssey is less important to the referendum outcome than suggested. When David Cameron formally began his EU renegotiation he avoided making demands that he knew would be unacceptable. He...
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Jeremy Corbyn ends his first 90 days as leader in a strong position
Victory in a series of proxy wars has left the Labour leader's allies bouyant. Corbynism for a decade? It no longer sounds ridiculous. John McDonnell sets out the party leadership’s best case...
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Invisible scars: what it’s like to survive a war
Too many outsiders to the world of war leap to make generalisations over those afflicted by PTSD. Shot six times, blinded in one eye, his comrades lying dead around him, Lance Corporal Liam...
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In search of the real Dick Whittington
The pantomime gives all the credit to a lucky cat, but Sir Richard Whittington was a canny medieval entrepeneur who made a fortune dealing in luxury goods and lending money to kings. No wonder...
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We take our human rights for granted - but they're under threat
Moves to water down the rights of others can quickly be used against "our" own, warns Javed Khan. Every day we use rights so embedded in our national psyche that we don’t give them a second thought....
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Caught in the parent trap: women and the skewed work-family balance
The Having It All trope won’t go away. It’s the Gordian knot of gender relations, and doesn’t it bore you silly? When my sons were small and I was editing a magazine, I would return home wrung out...
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Do men really understand what childcare’s about?
A recent study into the impact California’s Paid Family Leave has found that men are far more likely to take leave if their child is male and/or firstborn. Earlier this year Boris Johnson was giving a...
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Leader: The new intolerance
Throughout Europe, the radical right is surging. In the first round of the French regional elections on 6 December, the far-right Front National (FN) won the national vote and more than doubled its...
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Where's the most unionised square foot in Britain?
The answer holds the key to the pressure over airports. You might expect the answer to be "Barrow, where they make nuclear submarines", or, perhaps, a fire station somewhere - although the Fire...
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#Daeshbags: Anonymous is attacking Isis’s brand of toxic masculinity using memes
War by Photoshop. */ There are a fair few misconceptions surrounding hacker collective Anonymous's "war" on Isis. It was officially declared after the Paris attacks in a video message, but as Abby...
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