Will post-Brexit Britain overcome or fall further upon Enoch Powell’s troubling legacy?
It is 50 years since his notorious “rivers of blood” speech. Yet, in the intervening decades, Powell’s ideas have…
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Enoch Powell’s revenge
Abi Morgan Q&A: “It makes me happy that Obama was president“
The playwright and screenwriter talks revolution, the Kardashians and US gun laws.
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Prostate cancer research has had a £75m welcome boost. Now let’s treat another killer of men
Each week in the UK, 84 men kill themselves – three times the number of women.
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When I met Shaggy I was star-struck – but with Kylie, I’m in awe
The 1980s pop sensation has mastered something icons frequently master: the art of reinvention.
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“Not technically beautiful, she has an engaging laugh”: 35 years of being described by men
For women in music, being described most of the time by men is just par for the course.
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It’s that time again. The annual phone call from Footlights College asking me for money
Here is the clever bit: they always, for some reason that I cannot possibly fathom, choose a nice young woman…
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The overlooked aspect of patient care: why NHS catering needs a revolution
The NHS performs so many miracles every day – in comparison, feeding the sick should be a doddle.
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Why Radio 4’s Martha Kearney is the best presenter on the BBC
In Kearney, the BBC has (for once) identified the right star.
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The baffling sex appeal of cult leader Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in Netflix’s Wild Wild Country
The six-part film cannot effectively explain his appeal for the 30,000 people who joined his communes during the 1980s.
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The best performer of her generation, Beyoncé surpassed even herself at Coachella
She has raised the bar of pop music so high that her musical contemporaries can only crane their necks…
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Quiz is a fast-paced, hi-tech retelling of the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? cheating scandal
This tale of the “coughing major” is a nostalgic romp through the rise of reality television.
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“He keeps asking me, is it sad to be an old woman?”: sparring with the French director Claire Denis
The provocative auteur talks to Ryan Gilbey about sex at 71, her obsession with Juliette Binoche and why his…
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Hip-hop’s unhappy families: rappers’ tales of brotherhood and betrayal
Hard knocks and Hollywood adventures in new memoirs by Gucci Mane, Wiley and U-God of the Wu-Tang Clan.
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Classical vintage: tracing the origins of today’s wines to their Roman roots
: In The Wandering Vine: Wine, the Romans and Me, Nina Caplan blends travel, history, thinking and drinking.
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Daniel Alarcón’s new short story collection explores themes of displacement with a surreal eye
The Peruvian writer’s The King is Always Above the People dazzles with allegorical power and satire.
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Why atheists are true believers too
How atheisms are imitating the religions they claim to reject.
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A century ago, the Spanish flu killed 100 million people. Is a new pandemic on the way?
Our leaders need to act like the outbreak has already started – because for all we know it may…
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Viv Albertine explores complex mother-daughter relationships in her powerful new memoir
To Throw Away Unopened tests her understanding of herself against the story of her parents’ marriage and deaths.
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Trump doesn’t care about Syria – what the White House really wants is war with Iran
Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, is convinced that a new war is on the cards.
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Trump’s “mission accomplished” boasts confirm the West has no serious strategy for Syria
The West has still not reckoned with its first mistake in Syria: demanding the removal of Assad.
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Did Neville Chamberlain create the conditions for the RAF to win the Battle of Britain?
Flying through blue sky towards London, the Luftwaffe crews were in a confident mood. It was 15 September 1940…
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Crumbling Britain: thousands like my elderly aunt suffer as the public realm decays
The first in a New Statesman series examining the reality of the age of austerity – and how it is affecting people’s lives.
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Barb Jungr’s diary: Apart-hotels, scattered families and bringing the Liver Birds back to Liverpool
My Liver Birds reboot, set in the present day with new music and a new story, is coming to…
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The madness of our gender debate, where feminists defend slapping a 60-year-old woman
It seems swivel-eyed to condemn rhetorical “attacks” and blithely ignore physical ones.
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The humanist left must challenge the rise of cyborg socialism
A new “accelerationist” movement, defined by its embrace of technological determinism, represents a threat to the ethical socialist tradition and liberal democracy.
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The secrets of Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola’s success
Guardiola is a philosopher, at least as football understands the term.
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Americanisms are not a “corruption”: the false superiority of British English
When we try to be more British we frequently end up sounding more French.
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How Emmanuel Macron may become France’s first president to defeat strikers in decades
Or, as has happened before, the French may suddenly summon their revolutionary spirit and choose to disavow him.
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Commons confidential: why Emily Thornberry is “ready to unleash hell” over Sylvia Pankhurst
Your weekly dose of gossip from Westminster.
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If the left “virtue signals”, the US-led airstrikes on Syria were “gesture bombing”
Downing Street’s legal advice said it was to “alleviate overwhelming humanitarian suffering”. How it achieved this was not explained.
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The view from Assad’s palace
The Syrian president is now far more secure than in 2013, when the West decided not to intervene. The latest…
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Leader: Britain’s public realm is in unmistakable decay after years of unending cuts
Rough sleeping and child poverty are rising, while the NHS and schools struggle.
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