Ian Hargreaves on 110 years of the New Statesman: “Mandelson was a charmer and a bully”
The journalist and academic recalls his time as the magazine’s editor, 1996-1998.
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The true meaning of James Bond
The ultimate GQ snob, 007 more than anything represents consumer goods becoming available to people outside of aristocracy.
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Jemima Khan on 110 years of the New Statesman: “I felt bad about my Nick Clegg interview”
The screenwriter recalls her time as the magazine’s associate editor, 2011-2015.
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“It was an absolute riot”: nine New Statesman political editors reunite
As the magazine turns 110, its lobby team reflect on four tumultuous decades of the Westminster beat.
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Andrew Marr and Jackie Ashley on 110 years of the New Statesman: “There wasn’t too much rivalry”
The married couple recall their respective times as the magazine’s political editor.
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Mehdi Hasan on 110 years of the New Statesman: “David Cameron didn’t like me”
The MSNBC host recalls his time as the magazine’s senior editor (politics), 2009-2012.
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The Labour smear machine has unintentionally revealed the split between Yvette Cooper and Steve Reed
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The transporting effects of plane reading, how not to adapt Dickens, and why I care only for novels
I rarely see anything on television or in the cinema as adventurous as what can be found in a book.
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Joe Biden said “America is back”. So why are its foreign allies going their own way?
Former friends to the US are increasingly testing the forms and bounds of the shifting geopolitical geometry.
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Richard Ingrams: “Journalism is a drug: you can’t give it up”
The veteran editor on satire, libel and Private Eye.
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The view from Switzerland, where big business rules
The streets are clean, the trains excellent, the politics consensual. But as the Credit Suisse bailout showed, Switzerland’s ruling class…
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Ali Smith on the groundbreaking art of Lucie Rie
How the Austrian-born ceramicist changed everything possible in pottery.
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Whether sodden bomb or swerving orb, the football has always been a dangerous item
This is a world where “concussion sports law” is already a discipline and a trade.
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Derek Parfit: the perfectionist at All Souls
Brilliant and eccentric, the Oxford philosopher spent his career grappling with fundamental moral questions.
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The pop starlet reinvention wheel
From Madonna to Taylor Swift, the music industry demands that its female artists stay new, young and relevant forever.
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The Night of the 12th: a grim look at an unsolved murder
The director Dominik Moll is known for his tightly-plotted French thrillers. Now, he takes on an unsolved true crime.
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The limits of “female experience” TV
From Dreamland to The Power, shows are still signposting the astonishing revelation that women are complex people, too.
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From Amy Key to Tom Clark: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Eve by Claire Horn and A Stranger in Your Own City by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad.
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The humbling of the SNP
After nearly two decades, the age of nationalist hegemony may be over.
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How Labour lost the moral high ground
Attack ads are fundamental to politics. But the smear campaign against Rishi Sunak is a strategic and moral error.
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