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Whatever the solution, Labour can't ignore its English problem
Those who disagree with Tristram Hunt's proposal of an English parliament must suggest alternatives. Most of the reasons for Labour's general election defeat have been well-rehearsed: its leader...
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Commons confidential: Sunday, Dougie Sunday
Dougie Alexander has been working for Bono since being pumelled in Paisley by student Mhairi Black - but what are the U2 star's tax arrangements? The private-school-hunting, self-declared lover of...
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Windows of opportunity: Bill Gates on Desert Island Discs
Gates didn't quite comprehend the unspoken contract of Desert Island Discs: come ready to bare your heart. Kirsty Young’s conversation with Bill Gates (31 January, Radio 4, 11.15am) exhumed few...
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The mystery of Florian Zeller's paired "puzzle" plays
The Mother and The Father both show two characters called Anna and Pierre, who both times end up in a hospital room - but are they the same people? Alan Ayckbourn and Tom Stoppard have each had three...
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Men's rights activist Roosh V isn't just a sexist: he hates the modern world
Roosh and his community have seen that cultural change is chipping away at their privilege, and they're having none of it. When an activist known as Roosh V organised 165 “meet-ups” for like-minded...
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Keeping Up With the Khans is let down by its own lack of curiosity
Channel 4's new documentary, which tackles immigration in Sheffield, has an intriguing cast - but fails to delve below the surface. Remember Immigration Street? The pesky younger sibling of Benefits...
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The NS Podcast #134: Bernie, bankers and the battle for Europe
The New Statesman podcast. This week, Helen and Stephen ask what we can learn from Cameron’s EU renegotiations, and discuss why we need banking to stay in Britain. George Eaton then joins with the...
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The argument against remaking beloved sitcoms in five words: Martin Clunes as...
The closer Dad's Army gets to its source material, the more you wish you were watching that instead. Plus: Rams. It is generally accepted that dogs and their owners come to resemble one another. The...
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What can be done for Syria's refugees?
The lesson of the Marshall Plan is one we must re-learn today. Today, at the ‘Supporting Syria and the Region’ conference in London, leaders pledged billions in aid to alleviate the suffering of...
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South Africa today: betraying or upholding Mandela's values?
A speech by the former cabinet minister on whether the ANC can reclaim the vision of a "rainbow nation". Twenty-two years ago, the radiance of Nelson Mandela’s “rainbow nation” shone down upon the...
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We all have to take a stand against rising anti-Semitism
2015 saw the third-highest number of incidents ever recorded in Britain - it should be a cause of national shame. Last week we marked Holocaust Memorial Day, when communities and people of all faiths...
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Harry Harpham dies aged 61
The Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside has died after a struggle against cancer. Harry Harpham, the Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside, has died following a battle with leukemia. He was 61. Harpham,...
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Shylock Is My Name brings Shakespeare to the present - but is it too clever...
Howard Jacobson's places Shylock in Cheshire's "Golden Triangle". While thought-provoking, however, it struggles to work on its own terms. Of all Shakespeare’s plays, The Merchant of Venice is,...
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Outlook for 2016
Political change and the ‘normalisation’ of interest rates mean 2016 is likely to be another interesting year. But what will it bring for equities – and bonds? Here, a number of Artemis’ managers...
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Rhodes Must Fall: In any debate, money talks
“Oriel sold out,” says Andre Dallas, one of the organising committee and a student at St Edmund’s Hall. It’s less of a press conference and more of a wake. In a crowded room at Regent’s Park, a small...
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The Labour right crows about its “electability”. So why isn’t it interested...
The factions on the Labour right need to acknowledge that Corbyn won because people sought a genuine alternative. After Jeremy Corbyn scraped on to the Labour leadership ballot with seconds to spare,...
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Life Sciences Minister George Freeman MP – Leading the way for personalised...
Larushka Mellor, Head of Public Affairs and Policy at Merck asked the Life Sciences Minister, George Freeman MP for his thoughts on future of Personalised Medicine in the UK. Having spent fifteen...
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The Romanovs’ only loyalty was to absolute power
Simon Sebag Montefiore's new book shows the history of a world as gorgeous as it was bloody. For Tsar Alexander II, Sunday 1 March 1881 began as Sundays often did. He visited his mistress, “toppled...
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In local government, Labour needs a new response to Conservative cuts
The Tories have devolved the axe - Labour has to fight back, says Michael Chessum. Imagine being in government (a wistful thought for many readers of this blog, I know) and having a device that forced...
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No, feminists aren’t scared to write about the Cologne attacks
The people who asked why I hadn't written on the attacks weren't really interested in my opinion - they wanted me to say what they wanted to hear. One of the occupational hazards of writing a column –...
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