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The group the government forgets: careleavers
Children in care are the forgotten demographic in social policy. Role models and inspirational people are vital for a child’s development, no matter their role, and invaluable in a young person’s...
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I won't forget the man I saw outside the family planning clinic, rosary in hand
I find it hard to hate pro-life protestors - but I'm not in County Down, where a 21-year-old is being prosecuted for “attempting to procure a miscarriage”. I was eight months pregnant when I saw him...
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What's going on in the global markets? And how exposed is Britain?
After six years of Osbornomics, the country is more exposed to financial contagion than it was before the crash. Today, two facts about the UK economy appear to contradict each other. That’s this...
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As a child, Barry Humphries heard England through its music
Humphries arrived in England in 1959, just as London was exploding into life. On Wednesdays (10pm, BBC Radio 2), Barry Humphries has been talking about recordings he listened to while growing up in...
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Films like Spotlight imply absolution for their viewers – but come up short
Spotlight (15) and The Big Short (15) take on moral issues, but leave one more angry at sub-prime cinema than their subject matter. Films with a factual basis have a fast-track to the Oscars: half of...
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The NS Podcast #132: Integration, Inquest and Autopsies
The New Statesman Podcast. This week Helen Lewis and Stephen Bush discuss Labour's post-mortem into its general election defeat, then delve inside the world of forensic anthropology (and breeding...
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“Shakespeareomics” – how scientists are unlocking the secrets of the Bard
Science has an enormous and complementary role to play in humanities-based research. The year 2016 is the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare. Many events are planned to celebrate...
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John McDonnell's "right to own" shows some vision
The shadow chancellor's smart attempt to shed his statist image. "Where are the policies?" It is a question Labour MPs have often asked in the months since Jeremy Corbyn's election. Some are reminded...
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Could the success of Making a Murderer ever be repeated?
Making a Murderer makes me heartsick, but it was clearly a labour of love - unlike Channel 4's Manchester’s Serial Killer? I can’t remember the last time I heard anyone say, “I’m heartsick”: in these...
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Leader: The lessons of Europe’s Thirty Years War
In the West, the temptation for many is to turn away from events in the Middle East. How can outside actors hope to solve such an intractable problem, especially one with religion at its heart? Wars...
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Labour can't win with Jeremy Corbyn - but he's not the one to blame
Labour's self-described mainstream has much to answer for, says Tim Bale. I'm not so sure the commentariat as a whole got it wrong, but I do know that I did. I'm supposed to know something about the...
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How class war underpinned the laughs in Dad's Army
What makes Dad’s Army so enduring? The answer might have a lot to do with its surprising depth of social commentary. What do Star Wars and Dad’s Army have in common? Plenty, actually. Daisy Ridley,...
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An ex-WW2 camp is becoming a luxury hotel: what should we do with sites of...
Should we welcome or resist developments like the plan to transform a former concentration camp in Montenegro into a luxury hotel? Earlier this month, the government of Montenegro approved plans to...
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A very special version of Russian democracy
When asked whether their country is a democracy, Russians struggle to find a comprehensive answer.Russia cannot be understood with mere intellectOr measured by a common yardstick.Russia is so special...
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Morning Call: The best from Gibraltar
A selection of the best articles about politics, business and life on the Rock from the last seven day. The Rock is remarkable for its concentration of artists in such a small space and this month a...
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Comedian Hari Kondabolu on his diverse fans, Asians in TV, and racism in America
The comedian talks to us about his experience as the son of Indian immigrants, working as a human rights activist, and stereotypical casting.“You can not eat beef and be an asshole, or you can eat...
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Where do the pollsters go from here?
The polling inquiry has laid out the challenge - now pollsters must meet it. Pollsters across Britain have been trying to figure out what went wrong last May. Now the British Polling Council's...
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“On the Existing State of Things”: a new poem by Simon Armitage
From Virgil, the Aeneid, Book VI. */ A new poem by Simon Armitage, first published in the New Statesman on 22 January, 2016. Then to those shores that Charon patrols,...
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Woody Guthrie, “Old Man Trump” and a real estate empire’s racist foundations
Guthrie’s two-year tenancy in one of Fred Trump’s buildings produced some of his most bitter writings. In December 1950, Woody Guthrie signed his name to the lease of a new apartment in Brooklyn. Even...
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#Match4Lara: How social media can overcome your biological odds
For mixed-race and BME people in search of a donor, survival can be a case of beating the statistics. Lara Casalotti is a 24-year old Londoner with a recently diagnosed case of acute Myeloid...
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