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A happy day – at Spurs with my son, a win and a sweet pink sticker
Taking my son to the match on Boxing Day was going down memory lane. But who can afford season tickets for all the family these days? I went to Spurs on Boxing Day with my son James. That’s not his...
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After Cologne, we can't let the bigots steal feminism
Why can't we always take sexual assault as seriously as we do when migrants and Muslims are involved as perpetrators? In a perverse sort of way, it's progress. After months of dog-whistle xenophobia,...
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Labour needs a “red rose” moment
It's not enough for people to know what Labour is against - they have to know what it's for, too. With the reshuffle done, Jeremy Corbyn is right to say its time to take the fight to the Tories. But,...
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David Bowie has died from cancer at the age of 69
The singer, instrumentalist, actor, producer, painter and aesthete has died days after the release of his last album, Blackstar. David Bowie has died at the age of 69 eighteen months after being...
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Dickensian is boring – and it’s Charles Dickens’s fault
Let’s face it: Dickens wrote potboilers. Why would it be interesting to watch half a dozen of them mashed together onscreen? Is anyone still watching Dickensian? I mean actually watching, not just...
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What an MP accused of playing “the pregnancy card” in Parliament reveals...
Tulip Siddiq, a heavily pregnant Labour MP, was reportedly told by the Deputy Speaker that she had brought “down the whole of womankind” by leaving a debate for a snack. This week, female MPs were...
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George Osborne likes to talk about the economy as a family. But what type of...
Very few families feed their kids according to what they contribute. George Osborne often likes to compare his management of the UK economy with the budgeting of a family household. So, let’s play...
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The world’s next crisis: drought and famine in the Horn of Africa
There are warnings that the humanitarian caseload could exceed the Syrian crisis. The scale of the drought now gripping the Horn of Africa is only beginning to be grasped. While the BBC and some other...
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How can we bring the party back together?
The right must recognise that Jeremy Corbyn's mandate is strong and unquestionable - but Corbyn must compromise, too. You don’t need another thought piece on the state of the Party. We each have a...
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Sound & Vision: the story of David Bowie on screen – and the roles he turned...
David Bowie as an actor was a rare and unusual thing – and, for many, an acquired taste or an object of ridicule. Four years ago, the New Statesman was considering putting together an issue devoted...
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Momentum has defied the odds and will continue to grow
Labour should be participatory and campaign oriented. This isn't just a product; it's a movement. No one knows what politics will look like in a year. That was the lesson of 2015. Imagine telling a...
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Catherine McKinnell resigns from shadow cabinet
Catherine McKinnell has become the first member of the shadow cabinet to resign from Jeremy Corbyn's frontbench. Catherine McKinnell, the shadow attorney general, has resigned from Jeremy Corbyn's...
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Puritan v populist: the battle of the books world
D J Taylor’s The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England Since 1918 walks the tightrope between two sides of a culture war – but occasionally loses its footing. The two leading English book reviewers...
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2016 must be the year of polarisation
2016 is set to be a year of division - and one that could end with the left on the winning side. It is the season of stale mince pies and predictions. And yet if 2015 should have taught us anything,...
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Kanye’s “Real Friends” explores the impact on friendship not just of fame,...
The song struggles to distinguish “real” friendships through a tangled web of pleading texts, missed calls and promised FaceTimes. When Kanye West released his new song, “Real Friends”, via Soundcloud...
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The triumphs and errors of Éamon de Valera
Ronan Fanning's Éamon de Valera: a Will to Power reveals a titan of Irish politics. Neil Jordan’s first collection of short stories, Night in Tunisia, published in 1976, includes an account by a young...
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It’s not the global economy that George Osborne worries about. It’s Boris
The Chancellor should keep his eyes on his day job. So the Chancellor of the Exchequer made a speech last week in which he converted from the Jolly Santa look he was going for ahead of the Autumn...
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Will Self on David Bowie: We won’t see his like again
I wouldn’t claim to have an exhaustive familiarity with Bowie’s oeuvre, but then I don’t need to.This is an advance preview of this week’s magazine – to get all our David Bowie coverage, visit...
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Jeremy Corbyn and the trade unions go to war over Trident
The Labour leader's bid to change party policy leaves him in fundamental opposition to those who represent defence workers. With the appointment of the anti-Trident Emily Thornberry as shadow defence...
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Heat and motion sensors monitor whether Telegraph journalists are at their desks
Indeskigative reporting. Your mole has heard terrifying news from its whiskered counterpart at Telegraph towers, Barclay Burrows, that they're now monitoring journalists' movements using desk sensors....
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