Ed Smith

Ed Smith is an author, journalist and contributing writer to the New Statesman.

Against the cult of profit

Making money for shareholders has become a fixation, John Kay’s new book shows – but it is a meagre definition of business success.

By Ed Smith

By Ed Smith

By Ed Smith

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Thanks to the digitisation of everyday essentials, we waste a far greater proportion of our lives on admin than…

By Ed Smith

The influx of cash that came with the breakaway LIV series exposed the fault lines that run through all…

By Ed Smith

Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation shows how smartphones have damaged the teenage mind – and urges us to fight…

By Ed Smith

Even harder than achieving success is continuing to achieve.

By Ed Smith

In Going Infinite, the author fails to see the limits of his subject’s intelligence.

By Ed Smith

From ball one the 20-year-old was in ebullient battle mode – tearing up the grass and flipping defiant defence…

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In 1981, the singer sensed his future fame – and retreated. Nebraska, his darkest and most personal album, was…

By Ed Smith

The Conservative Party’s leadership crises have led to institutional collapse

By Ed Smith