Russell Brand’s career was defined by misogyny – and audiences delighted in it
What a comedian chooses to joke about is revealing – and has a bearing on the world at large.
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Why we’ll never understand Lucy Letby
The nurse’s motive will remain unknown, but there are irrefutable systemic failures which can be addressed.
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Subscriber of the Week: Waterstones Dad
Please email zuzanna.lachendro@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be the New Statesman’s subscriber of the week.
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An eight-hour lunch puts the passing of time in perspective
Catching up with the cartoonist Martin Rowson provided valuable insights into friendship, satire and immortality.
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The Huw Edwards crisis has revealed the BBC’s editorial blind spot
If the corporation is to survive, it needs a robust policy for covering celebrity scandals.
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Behind the rise of Amol Rajan
Former colleagues recall being “flabbergasted” by his success, but soon he’ll be presenting University Challenge. What’s his secret?
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The decadent society
With the nation consumed by sleaze, the serious business of government is at a standstill.
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Hunt for the suspended BBC presenter exposes our privacy law mess
Online sleuths will inevitably accuse the wrong people. Better to name the subjects of investigations.
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