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Bad news at the Guardian – is it too late to apply the brakes?
The Guardian’s abiding problem is that the people who run it seem unable to add up, or at least read a balance sheet. When I was writing about the Guardian and its then editor, Alan Rusbridger, for...
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Selena Gomez’s “Hands to Myself” and the policing of female masturbation
From music videos to TV and film: female masturbation often signals psychosis on screen. This week, Selena Gomez released the video for her single “Hands to Myself”, a song about, well, how she can’t...
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Can local government save Labour?
Meet Richard Leese, the leader of Manchester City Council, and one of the most powerful Labour politicians today. In the 1980s, the Democratic Party was pummeled in three presidential elections and...
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Love & Friendship, based on an early Austen novella, rewrites the period...
Based on Jane Austen’s little-known early novella Lady Susan, Whit Stillman’s new film Love & Friendship is anything but a straightforward adaptation. The brilliant improvisation group...
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The return of “FCUK” T-shirts is more about pearl-clutching prudishness than...
We live in an age when sincerity is taken for stupidity and cleverness is making sure that no one can ever pin you down.“Mummy,” asks my eight-year-old son, pointing at the French Connection gift set...
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Britain's productivity problem is as bad as ever - and George Osborne doesn't...
Growth is still low - and productivity is part of the problem. This morning’s GDP data shows that economic growth is still low, with 0.5 per cent growth in the size of the UK economy in the last three...
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Watch: Newsnight presenter Evan Davis calls shadow foreign secretary "Hilary...
BONG goes the gaffe bell. BBC Newsnight presenter Evan Davis accidentally gave the shadow foreign secretary a porn name last night: Sorry @evanhd , you did say "Hilary Big...
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Commons confidential: Every day reshuffling
The ongoing reshuffle, more bad news for Simon Danczuk Media Ltd - and is Liam Gallagher a Corbyn fan?The Prime Minister bristles at the suggestion that he is a phoney who rules by PR, so it is...
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Listen up! Noel Gallagher has called Jeremy Corbyn's politics "communism"
The Oasis star has insinuated that Corbyn's strategy is going nowhere as he contrasts today's politics with 1997. Hello. It’s a strange thing today: apparently Noel Gallagher of Oasis has called...
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Today, remember the children who are themselves carers
Some children are forced to grow up faster than others. Thirteen year old Tomomi has had to grow up fast, doing chores around the home to help her mum who suffers from a debilitating blood condition....
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Five years of mistakes from George Osborne have left the economy more...
The Osborne legacy: an economy too exposed to China and too indebted to weather the storm. Another week, and another set of bad news for George Osborne. Last week the Cabinet met to discuss the UK’s...
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Leonardo DiCaprio is on the World Service - and it's clear he takes Method...
You have to admire DiCaprio’s performance, no question, but “epic neo-realism”? “Does that sound like an ‘art movie’ to you?” asked a sceptical Nikki Bedi, the presenter of The Arts Hour (25 January,...
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Paolo Sorrentino attracts great actors - but they're wasted on Youth
Jane Fonda, Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel are all exceptional in Youth, but its messages are rather beneath them. Hotels are ideally placed to accommodate farce but the setting lends itself also to...
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How I learned to walk miles on a midnight marathon across London
Between Clare Balding striding into the road to stop traffic and Grace Dent's elegant glide, we survived the Moonwalk. My New Year resolution was to drink more champagne. I realise that sounds a bit...
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The child was 11, maybe 12, and he was trying to buy a branch of Starbucks
As the tiny Donald Trump waved his Blackberry, I thought: I really have to stop living in Hampstead. I’ve seen a child try to buy the lease on a Starbucks. “You can’t close down,” I heard him tell the...
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The NS Podcast #133: Divisions, Dodgy-Deals and Dr Who
The New Statesman podcast. This week, Helen Lewis and Stephen Bush talk Labour splits, George Eaton discusses Osborne’s Google tax blunder, and a new feature - ‘You Ask Us’ - sees our presenters place...
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Lisa Nandy: "I don't want to be Labour leader"
Shadow energy secretary says she does not have "a secret plan to go and kick Jeremy out of his office". Lisa Nandy has said that she does not want to be Labour leader and that she hasn't got "a secret...
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Lisa Nandy: "The debate that we’re having in Labour is too small"
The shadow energy and climate change secretary on the party's "oppositional" mentality, Trident and why she doesn't want to be leader. On the wall of Lisa Nandy’s Commons office is a painting of a red...
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The political perils of Keeping Calm and Carrying On
What Owen Hatherley's The Ministry of Nostalgia ultimately misses is that our relationship to the past is about personal taste as much as politics. In White Out: the Secret Life of Heroin the American...
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The guerrilla restaurateur: how to organise a piss-up in a warzone
Black market booze, a Kalashnikov cloakroom, and women in bikinis escaping over barbed wire: meet Marc Victor, the king of Kabul nightlife. Think of Kabul in the mid-2000s and the last image that...
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