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Why ministers shouldn't celebrate today's migration figures

By Sarah Mulley - 23 May 12:56

With a dramatic fall in the number of international students, the government’s policy 'success...
Ken Livingstone: we were warned that Iraq "would make Britain a target"

By George Eaton - 23 May 12:12

In response to the Woolwich attack, the former Mayor of London says "we are still experiencing...
Woolwich terror attack: Muslims shouldn't have to distance themselves

By George Eaton - 23 May 9:11

They bear no more responsibility for jihadism than Christians do for the Ku Klux Klan.
Woolwich terror attack: Cameron and Miliband respond

By George Eaton - 22 May 20:33

"The terrorists never win because they cannot defeat the values we hold dear," says Cameron...
Duncan Smith to face grilling from MPs over misuse of statistics

By George Eaton - 22 May 15:28

The work and pensions select committee launches an inquiry after Duncan Smith was rebuked by...
The real lessons for Labour and the Lib Dems from the 2010 talks

By Mark Thompson - 22 May 16:58

It wasn't ideology that led the Lib Dems to reject coalition with Labour, but the reds' near-...
Talk of coalition divorce is an expression of Tory hope, not fear

By Rafael Behr - 22 May 14:34

While the Lib Dems have much to lose from an early end to the coalition, the Tories can easily...
Miliband reburies socialism at Google

By George Eaton - 22 May 13:29

Praising Tony Blair and criticising Ralph Miliband, the Labour leader said the choice was not...
Osborne's deficit continues to grow

By George Eaton - 22 May 10:51

Despite no shortage of austerity, borrowing was £1.3bn higher in April than in the same month...
Cameron promises: no more EU U-turns

By George Eaton - 22 May 9:05

The PM insists that the date of the referendum "isn't going to change". But will Tory MPs allow...

Need to Know

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Blogs | By New Statesman
Steven Poole on the rise of big data
This is the most authentic clichéd, mock-Italiano ristorante I’ve dined in for ages
Culture | By Will Self
Will Self's "Real Meals" column.
A Marvel comic shows the true face of Britain
Culture | By Alex Hern
Faiza Hussein is the new Captain Britain.
Gender and consent: trans is not a deception
Blogs | By Jane Fae
Xbox One
Culture | By Tom Watson
Conceived in an age of prosperity, it's the wrong console for our time

Media

Will there still be a New Statesman in 2113?

By Helen Lewis - 17 May

The signs are good - the printing press has been good enough for
"The best place to look for rubbish written on class is in the Daily Mail"

By Danny Dorling - 16 May

Britain's poor were absolutely and relatively better off until
Imagine if a government had solved everything it could: would hacks back off?

By Ed Smith - 16 May

Ed Smith's "Left Field" column.
Lift up your voices: The century-long battle for women's freedom

By Natasha Walter - 15 May

The NS of 1913 may have been in the vanguard for women’s
The irony of the press criticising Michael Gove's dodgy surveys

By Michael Marshall - 14 May

Most PR-commissioned surveys are bunk – but it's not just Michael
Does the New York Times want anyone to read Angelina Jolie's piece?

By Alex Hern - 14 May

If the NYT wants to ensure its pieces are never sullied by the

Business

Renewable energy to save consumers between £25 and £100bn

By Gordon Edge - 23 May

A new government report outlines the economic case for renewable
Triple dip remains successfully avoided in GDP second estimate

By Alex Hern - 23 May

Stagnation continues, writes Alex Hern.
Man and machine

By Ved Sen - 23 May

It's man and machine, not man versus machine.
Cable & Wireless to leave the UK

By - 23 May

The firm is shifting base to focus more on the Caribbean and
Ford to close two production plants in Australia

By - 23 May

The closures are expected to axe 1,200 jobs
HP net earnings decline 32 per cent in second-quarter

By - 23 May

Net debt drops from $2.9bn to $1.8bn

Books

A Marvel comic shows the true face of Britain

By Alex Hern - 23 May

Faiza Hussein is the new Captain Britain.
A story impaled by its own moral

By Leo Robson - 23 May

It’s as a portrait of the age that this novel feels most overdone
Incoming: Aleksander Hemon, James Salter and Emily Berry at the Southbank Centre

By Critic - 20 May

Preview: London Literature Festival.
Reviewed: Letters by Kurt Vonnegut

By Daniel Swift - 16 May

Made in Dresden.
Reviewed: The Serpent’s Promise: the Bible Retold as Science by Steve Jones

By Nick Spencer - 16 May

Creation myths.
Reviewed: Harry’s Games by John Crace

By Sophie Elmhirst - 16 May

Win or lose, on the booze.

Interviews

Sarah Wollaston: Doctor Sharp Eyes

By George Eaton - 23 May

An MP David Cameron should find space for in his magic circle.
Brian Eno: “How can Alastair Campbell have a TV career?”

By Kate Mossman - 16 May

From Roxy Music to Coldplay - the many faces of Brian Eno.
Isabel Allende: "I have lived the horror of drugs"

By Jonathan Derbyshire - 02 May

The Books Interview.
Julian Barnes: “I do believe in grudge-bearing”

By Soumya Bhattacharya - 25 April

In a rare interview, the novelist Julian Barnes talks about
“If Ed Miliband is seduced by the Blairites, he’ll be consigned to the dustbin of history”

By George Eaton - 24 April

George Eaton interviews Len McCluskey.
Mohsin Hamid: "I think the personal is political and the political is personal"

By Sophie Elmhirst - 12 April

The Books Interview.

Games

Xbox One

By Tom Watson - 22 May

Microsoft's vision of the future is a group of wildly
11 things we learned from this year's Premier League

By Hunter Davies - 16 May

Hunter Davies' "The Fan" column.
The Fan

By Hunter Davies - 09 May

Hunter Davies' "The Fan" column.
The Hideout – Why Board Games Matter

By Robert Florence - 06 May

Rab Florence on reinventing the rulebook every time you play.
The Land of the Free: Getting your money's worth from free to play games

By Phil Hartup - 30 April

More and more games are setting their stall out for free right
The end of the epic: why the success of Bioshock Infinite is bad for gaming

By Phil Hartup - 21 April

Phil Hartup hated the critically acclaimed blockbuster. And he

Film

The Hangover Part III: a franchise in its death throes

By Ryan Gilbey - 23 May

Another installment of the second-unfunniest comedy franchise in
Why women’s bodies can’t do anything right

By Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett - 21 May

Enviable curves v skinny self-control.
Billie versus Bobby – how one tennis match changed history.

By Charlotte Simmonds - 17 May

Reviewed: Battle of the Sexes.
I'm not worried about masculinity in crisis: I've seen where it leads

By Ryan Gilbey - 16 May

Blood, mud and splinters.
All that glitters is gigabytes

By Ryan Gilbey - 16 May

Reviewed: The Great Gatsby.
Mud is heartwarming, manly and gooey as molasses

By Philip Maughan - 13 May

Reviewed: Mud.

Television

What’s the point of BBC4?

By David Herman - 15 May

When the channel started in 2002, it was branded as “a place to
There are times when Vicious makes Are You Being Served? seem almost nuanced

By Rachel Cooke - 10 May

Reviewed: Vicious.
Action movies, bilingual tunes and the exorcism of a family of six: channel hopping in Cameroon

By Bim Adewunmi - 09 May

After a cosy night watching Dutch reality TV, daily viewing in
Anal fissures and domestic violence - it's Men's Hour

By Antonia Quirke - 09 May

Reviewed: Men's Hour.
Reviewed: Life of Crime

By Rachel Cooke - 08 May

Force of nature.
Reviewed: Tweet of the Day on Radio 4

By Antonia Quirke - 08 May

Morning has spoken.

Sci-tech

How two farm-boys-done-good could change the world

By Michael Brooks - 17 May

While everyone loves Commander Chris Hadfield, it's Iowan James
Doesn’t kill you: makes you weaker

By Michael Brooks - 16 May

As things stand a scientific assessment would suggest that
New browser plugin stops people bamboozling you with numbers

By Alex Hern - 16 May

Dictionary of Numbers provides that much needed context.
Commander Chris Hadfield says goodbye to the International Space Station through the medium of David Bowie

By Alex Hern - 13 May

Highest music video since Snoop Dogg's last one.
CAPITAL LETTERS, little girl voice: internet feminists all write the same

By Martha Gill - 09 May

The perils of Groupthink - Martha Gill's "Irrational Animals"
Urban novelties

By Sarah Ditum - 08 May

These Pages Fall Like Ash turned a city into a fantasy

Economics

Renewable energy to save consumers between £25 and £100bn

By Gordon Edge - 23 May

A new government report outlines the economic case for renewable
Triple dip remains successfully avoided in GDP second estimate

By Alex Hern - 23 May

Stagnation continues, writes Alex Hern.
The slow burn of food prices is squeezing the world dry

By Duncan Green - 23 May

A new Oxfam report reveals the crushing effects of roller-coaster
Voices of austerity

By Mary O'Hara - 22 May

A new project aims to give a voice to the people harmed by
Will the left focus on what money can't buy, or on what money shouldn't buy?

By Alex Hern - 21 May

Alex Hern speaks to Michael Sandel about morality in politics and
The best way to fix the long term is with more short-termism

By Alex Hern - 20 May

People don't like thinking about hard problems while the economy

World affairs

Why the European ideal is under threat

By Mark Mazower - 19 May

The certainties that sustained notions of European unity and
Obama's crappy week

By Nicky Woolf - 17 May

In just a couple of days, Obama's government machine had managed
A lone voice for peace

By James Harkin - 16 May

An interview with Haytham Manna.
In a generation, everything has changed for British Muslim women

By Irna Qureshi - 15 May

My mother and I both married men from Pakistan. Both marriages
Israel row: The bid to defund Toronto LGBT Pride is straightforward censorship

By Peter Tatchell - 15 May

The bid to ban pro-Palestine group Queers Against Israeli
Tonderai Ndira's Zimbabwe: five years on

By Mark Olden - 14 May

Amid all the bloodshed of Zimbabwe’s 2008 election, it was the

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Why ministers shouldn't celebrate today's migration figures

By Sarah Mulley - 23 May 12:56

With a dramatic fall in the number of international students, the government’s policy 'success...
Ken Livingstone: we were warned that Iraq "would make Britain a target"

By George Eaton - 23 May 12:12

In response to the Woolwich attack, the former Mayor of London says "we are still experiencing...
Woolwich terror attack: Muslims shouldn't have to distance themselves

By George Eaton - 23 May 9:11

They bear no more responsibility for jihadism than Christians do for the Ku Klux Klan.
Woolwich terror attack: Cameron and Miliband respond

By George Eaton - 22 May 20:33

"The terrorists never win because they cannot defeat the values we hold dear," says Cameron...
Duncan Smith to face grilling from MPs over misuse of statistics

By George Eaton - 22 May 15:28

The work and pensions select committee launches an inquiry after Duncan Smith was rebuked by...
The real lessons for Labour and the Lib Dems from the 2010 talks

By Mark Thompson - 22 May 16:58

It wasn't ideology that led the Lib Dems to reject coalition with Labour, but the reds' near-...
Talk of coalition divorce is an expression of Tory hope, not fear

By Rafael Behr - 22 May 14:34

While the Lib Dems have much to lose from an early end to the coalition, the Tories can easily...
Miliband reburies socialism at Google

By George Eaton - 22 May 13:29

Praising Tony Blair and criticising Ralph Miliband, the Labour leader said the choice was not...
Osborne's deficit continues to grow

By George Eaton - 22 May 10:51

Despite no shortage of austerity, borrowing was £1.3bn higher in April than in the same month...
Cameron promises: no more EU U-turns

By George Eaton - 22 May 9:05

The PM insists that the date of the referendum "isn't going to change". But will Tory MPs allow...

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In this week’s New Statesman
Blogs | By New Statesman
Steven Poole on the rise of big data
This is the most authentic clichéd, mock-Italiano ristorante I’ve dined in for ages
Culture | By Will Self
Will Self's "Real Meals" column.
A Marvel comic shows the true face of Britain
Culture | By Alex Hern
Faiza Hussein is the new Captain Britain.
Gender and consent: trans is not a deception
Blogs | By Jane Fae
Xbox One
Culture | By Tom Watson
Conceived in an age of prosperity, it's the wrong console for our time

Media

Will there still be a New Statesman in 2113?

By Helen Lewis - 17 May

The signs are good - the printing press has been good enough for
"The best place to look for rubbish written on class is in the Daily Mail"

By Danny Dorling - 16 May

Britain's poor were absolutely and relatively better off until
Imagine if a government had solved everything it could: would hacks back off?

By Ed Smith - 16 May

Ed Smith's "Left Field" column.
Lift up your voices: The century-long battle for women's freedom

By Natasha Walter - 15 May

The NS of 1913 may have been in the vanguard for women’s
The irony of the press criticising Michael Gove's dodgy surveys

By Michael Marshall - 14 May

Most PR-commissioned surveys are bunk – but it's not just Michael
Does the New York Times want anyone to read Angelina Jolie's piece?

By Alex Hern - 14 May

If the NYT wants to ensure its pieces are never sullied by the

Business

Renewable energy to save consumers between £25 and £100bn

By Gordon Edge - 23 May

A new government report outlines the economic case for renewable
Triple dip remains successfully avoided in GDP second estimate

By Alex Hern - 23 May

Stagnation continues, writes Alex Hern.
Man and machine

By Ved Sen - 23 May

It's man and machine, not man versus machine.
Cable & Wireless to leave the UK

By - 23 May

The firm is shifting base to focus more on the Caribbean and
Ford to close two production plants in Australia

By - 23 May

The closures are expected to axe 1,200 jobs
HP net earnings decline 32 per cent in second-quarter

By - 23 May

Net debt drops from $2.9bn to $1.8bn

Books

A Marvel comic shows the true face of Britain

By Alex Hern - 23 May

Faiza Hussein is the new Captain Britain.
A story impaled by its own moral

By Leo Robson - 23 May

It’s as a portrait of the age that this novel feels most overdone
Incoming: Aleksander Hemon, James Salter and Emily Berry at the Southbank Centre

By Critic - 20 May

Preview: London Literature Festival.
Reviewed: Letters by Kurt Vonnegut

By Daniel Swift - 16 May

Made in Dresden.
Reviewed: The Serpent’s Promise: the Bible Retold as Science by Steve Jones

By Nick Spencer - 16 May

Creation myths.
Reviewed: Harry’s Games by John Crace

By Sophie Elmhirst - 16 May

Win or lose, on the booze.

Interviews

Sarah Wollaston: Doctor Sharp Eyes

By George Eaton - 23 May

An MP David Cameron should find space for in his magic circle.
Brian Eno: “How can Alastair Campbell have a TV career?”

By Kate Mossman - 16 May

From Roxy Music to Coldplay - the many faces of Brian Eno.
Isabel Allende: "I have lived the horror of drugs"

By Jonathan Derbyshire - 02 May

The Books Interview.
Julian Barnes: “I do believe in grudge-bearing”

By Soumya Bhattacharya - 25 April

In a rare interview, the novelist Julian Barnes talks about
“If Ed Miliband is seduced by the Blairites, he’ll be consigned to the dustbin of history”

By George Eaton - 24 April

George Eaton interviews Len McCluskey.
Mohsin Hamid: "I think the personal is political and the political is personal"

By Sophie Elmhirst - 12 April

The Books Interview.

Games

Xbox One

By Tom Watson - 22 May

Microsoft's vision of the future is a group of wildly
11 things we learned from this year's Premier League

By Hunter Davies - 16 May

Hunter Davies' "The Fan" column.
The Fan

By Hunter Davies - 09 May

Hunter Davies' "The Fan" column.
The Hideout – Why Board Games Matter

By Robert Florence - 06 May

Rab Florence on reinventing the rulebook every time you play.
The Land of the Free: Getting your money's worth from free to play games

By Phil Hartup - 30 April

More and more games are setting their stall out for free right
The end of the epic: why the success of Bioshock Infinite is bad for gaming

By Phil Hartup - 21 April

Phil Hartup hated the critically acclaimed blockbuster. And he

Film

The Hangover Part III: a franchise in its death throes

By Ryan Gilbey - 23 May

Another installment of the second-unfunniest comedy franchise in
Why women’s bodies can’t do anything right

By Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett - 21 May

Enviable curves v skinny self-control.
Billie versus Bobby – how one tennis match changed history.

By Charlotte Simmonds - 17 May

Reviewed: Battle of the Sexes.
I'm not worried about masculinity in crisis: I've seen where it leads

By Ryan Gilbey - 16 May

Blood, mud and splinters.
All that glitters is gigabytes

By Ryan Gilbey - 16 May

Reviewed: The Great Gatsby.
Mud is heartwarming, manly and gooey as molasses

By Philip Maughan - 13 May

Reviewed: Mud.

Television

What’s the point of BBC4?

By David Herman - 15 May

When the channel started in 2002, it was branded as “a place to
There are times when Vicious makes Are You Being Served? seem almost nuanced

By Rachel Cooke - 10 May

Reviewed: Vicious.
Action movies, bilingual tunes and the exorcism of a family of six: channel hopping in Cameroon

By Bim Adewunmi - 09 May

After a cosy night watching Dutch reality TV, daily viewing in
Anal fissures and domestic violence - it's Men's Hour

By Antonia Quirke - 09 May

Reviewed: Men's Hour.
Reviewed: Life of Crime

By Rachel Cooke - 08 May

Force of nature.
Reviewed: Tweet of the Day on Radio 4

By Antonia Quirke - 08 May

Morning has spoken.

Sci-tech

How two farm-boys-done-good could change the world

By Michael Brooks - 17 May

While everyone loves Commander Chris Hadfield, it's Iowan James
Doesn’t kill you: makes you weaker

By Michael Brooks - 16 May

As things stand a scientific assessment would suggest that
New browser plugin stops people bamboozling you with numbers

By Alex Hern - 16 May

Dictionary of Numbers provides that much needed context.
Commander Chris Hadfield says goodbye to the International Space Station through the medium of David Bowie

By Alex Hern - 13 May

Highest music video since Snoop Dogg's last one.
CAPITAL LETTERS, little girl voice: internet feminists all write the same

By Martha Gill - 09 May

The perils of Groupthink - Martha Gill's "Irrational Animals"
Urban novelties

By Sarah Ditum - 08 May

These Pages Fall Like Ash turned a city into a fantasy

Economics

Renewable energy to save consumers between £25 and £100bn

By Gordon Edge - 23 May

A new government report outlines the economic case for renewable
Triple dip remains successfully avoided in GDP second estimate

By Alex Hern - 23 May

Stagnation continues, writes Alex Hern.
The slow burn of food prices is squeezing the world dry

By Duncan Green - 23 May

A new Oxfam report reveals the crushing effects of roller-coaster
Voices of austerity

By Mary O'Hara - 22 May

A new project aims to give a voice to the people harmed by
Will the left focus on what money can't buy, or on what money shouldn't buy?

By Alex Hern - 21 May

Alex Hern speaks to Michael Sandel about morality in politics and
The best way to fix the long term is with more short-termism

By Alex Hern - 20 May

People don't like thinking about hard problems while the economy

World affairs

Why the European ideal is under threat

By Mark Mazower - 19 May

The certainties that sustained notions of European unity and
Obama's crappy week

By Nicky Woolf - 17 May

In just a couple of days, Obama's government machine had managed
A lone voice for peace

By James Harkin - 16 May

An interview with Haytham Manna.
In a generation, everything has changed for British Muslim women

By Irna Qureshi - 15 May

My mother and I both married men from Pakistan. Both marriages
Israel row: The bid to defund Toronto LGBT Pride is straightforward censorship

By Peter Tatchell - 15 May

The bid to ban pro-Palestine group Queers Against Israeli
Tonderai Ndira's Zimbabwe: five years on

By Mark Olden - 14 May

Amid all the bloodshed of Zimbabwe’s 2008 election, it was the

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Why ministers shouldn't celebrate today's migration figures

By Sarah Mulley - 23 May 12:56

With a dramatic fall in the number of international students, the government’s policy 'success...
Ken Livingstone: we were warned that Iraq "would make Britain a target"

By George Eaton - 23 May 12:12

In response to the Woolwich attack, the former Mayor of London says "we are still experiencing...
Woolwich terror attack: Muslims shouldn't have to distance themselves

By George Eaton - 23 May 9:11

They bear no more responsibility for jihadism than Christians do for the Ku Klux Klan.
Woolwich terror attack: Cameron and Miliband respond

By George Eaton - 22 May 20:33

"The terrorists never win because they cannot defeat the values we hold dear," says Cameron...
Duncan Smith to face grilling from MPs over misuse of statistics

By George Eaton - 22 May 15:28

The work and pensions select committee launches an inquiry after Duncan Smith was rebuked by...
The real lessons for Labour and the Lib Dems from the 2010 talks

By Mark Thompson - 22 May 16:58

It wasn't ideology that led the Lib Dems to reject coalition with Labour, but the reds' near-...
Talk of coalition divorce is an expression of Tory hope, not fear

By Rafael Behr - 22 May 14:34

While the Lib Dems have much to lose from an early end to the coalition, the Tories can easily...
Miliband reburies socialism at Google

By George Eaton - 22 May 13:29

Praising Tony Blair and criticising Ralph Miliband, the Labour leader said the choice was not...
Osborne's deficit continues to grow

By George Eaton - 22 May 10:51

Despite no shortage of austerity, borrowing was £1.3bn higher in April than in the same month...
Cameron promises: no more EU U-turns

By George Eaton - 22 May 9:05

The PM insists that the date of the referendum "isn't going to change". But will Tory MPs allow...

Need to Know

In this week’s New Statesman
Blogs | By New Statesman
Steven Poole on the rise of big data
This is the most authentic clichéd, mock-Italiano ristorante I’ve dined in for ages
Culture | By Will Self
Will Self's "Real Meals" column.
A Marvel comic shows the true face of Britain
Culture | By Alex Hern
Faiza Hussein is the new Captain Britain.
Gender and consent: trans is not a deception
Blogs | By Jane Fae
Xbox One
Culture | By Tom Watson
Conceived in an age of prosperity, it's the wrong console for our time

Media

Will there still be a New Statesman in 2113?

By Helen Lewis - 17 May

The signs are good - the printing press has been good enough for
"The best place to look for rubbish written on class is in the Daily Mail"

By Danny Dorling - 16 May

Britain's poor were absolutely and relatively better off until
Imagine if a government had solved everything it could: would hacks back off?

By Ed Smith - 16 May

Ed Smith's "Left Field" column.
Lift up your voices: The century-long battle for women's freedom

By Natasha Walter - 15 May

The NS of 1913 may have been in the vanguard for women’s
The irony of the press criticising Michael Gove's dodgy surveys

By Michael Marshall - 14 May

Most PR-commissioned surveys are bunk – but it's not just Michael
Does the New York Times want anyone to read Angelina Jolie's piece?

By Alex Hern - 14 May

If the NYT wants to ensure its pieces are never sullied by the

Business

Renewable energy to save consumers between £25 and £100bn

By Gordon Edge - 23 May

A new government report outlines the economic case for renewable
Triple dip remains successfully avoided in GDP second estimate

By Alex Hern - 23 May

Stagnation continues, writes Alex Hern.
Man and machine

By Ved Sen - 23 May

It's man and machine, not man versus machine.
Cable & Wireless to leave the UK

By - 23 May

The firm is shifting base to focus more on the Caribbean and
Ford to close two production plants in Australia

By - 23 May

The closures are expected to axe 1,200 jobs
HP net earnings decline 32 per cent in second-quarter

By - 23 May

Net debt drops from $2.9bn to $1.8bn

Books

A Marvel comic shows the true face of Britain

By Alex Hern - 23 May

Faiza Hussein is the new Captain Britain.
A story impaled by its own moral

By Leo Robson - 23 May

It’s as a portrait of the age that this novel feels most overdone
Incoming: Aleksander Hemon, James Salter and Emily Berry at the Southbank Centre

By Critic - 20 May

Preview: London Literature Festival.
Reviewed: Letters by Kurt Vonnegut

By Daniel Swift - 16 May

Made in Dresden.
Reviewed: The Serpent’s Promise: the Bible Retold as Science by Steve Jones

By Nick Spencer - 16 May

Creation myths.
Reviewed: Harry’s Games by John Crace

By Sophie Elmhirst - 16 May

Win or lose, on the booze.

Interviews

Sarah Wollaston: Doctor Sharp Eyes

By George Eaton - 23 May

An MP David Cameron should find space for in his magic circle.
Brian Eno: “How can Alastair Campbell have a TV career?”

By Kate Mossman - 16 May

From Roxy Music to Coldplay - the many faces of Brian Eno.
Isabel Allende: "I have lived the horror of drugs"

By Jonathan Derbyshire - 02 May

The Books Interview.
Julian Barnes: “I do believe in grudge-bearing”

By Soumya Bhattacharya - 25 April

In a rare interview, the novelist Julian Barnes talks about
“If Ed Miliband is seduced by the Blairites, he’ll be consigned to the dustbin of history”

By George Eaton - 24 April

George Eaton interviews Len McCluskey.
Mohsin Hamid: "I think the personal is political and the political is personal"

By Sophie Elmhirst - 12 April

The Books Interview.

Games

Xbox One

By Tom Watson - 22 May

Microsoft's vision of the future is a group of wildly
11 things we learned from this year's Premier League

By Hunter Davies - 16 May

Hunter Davies' "The Fan" column.
The Fan

By Hunter Davies - 09 May

Hunter Davies' "The Fan" column.
The Hideout – Why Board Games Matter

By Robert Florence - 06 May

Rab Florence on reinventing the rulebook every time you play.
The Land of the Free: Getting your money's worth from free to play games

By Phil Hartup - 30 April

More and more games are setting their stall out for free right
The end of the epic: why the success of Bioshock Infinite is bad for gaming

By Phil Hartup - 21 April

Phil Hartup hated the critically acclaimed blockbuster. And he

Film

The Hangover Part III: a franchise in its death throes

By Ryan Gilbey - 23 May

Another installment of the second-unfunniest comedy franchise in
Why women’s bodies can’t do anything right

By Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett - 21 May

Enviable curves v skinny self-control.
Billie versus Bobby – how one tennis match changed history.

By Charlotte Simmonds - 17 May

Reviewed: Battle of the Sexes.
I'm not worried about masculinity in crisis: I've seen where it leads

By Ryan Gilbey - 16 May

Blood, mud and splinters.
All that glitters is gigabytes

By Ryan Gilbey - 16 May

Reviewed: The Great Gatsby.
Mud is heartwarming, manly and gooey as molasses

By Philip Maughan - 13 May

Reviewed: Mud.

Television

What’s the point of BBC4?

By David Herman - 15 May

When the channel started in 2002, it was branded as “a place to
There are times when Vicious makes Are You Being Served? seem almost nuanced

By Rachel Cooke - 10 May

Reviewed: Vicious.
Action movies, bilingual tunes and the exorcism of a family of six: channel hopping in Cameroon

By Bim Adewunmi - 09 May

After a cosy night watching Dutch reality TV, daily viewing in
Anal fissures and domestic violence - it's Men's Hour

By Antonia Quirke - 09 May

Reviewed: Men's Hour.
Reviewed: Life of Crime

By Rachel Cooke - 08 May

Force of nature.
Reviewed: Tweet of the Day on Radio 4

By Antonia Quirke - 08 May

Morning has spoken.

Sci-tech

How two farm-boys-done-good could change the world

By Michael Brooks - 17 May

While everyone loves Commander Chris Hadfield, it's Iowan James
Doesn’t kill you: makes you weaker

By Michael Brooks - 16 May

As things stand a scientific assessment would suggest that
New browser plugin stops people bamboozling you with numbers

By Alex Hern - 16 May

Dictionary of Numbers provides that much needed context.
Commander Chris Hadfield says goodbye to the International Space Station through the medium of David Bowie

By Alex Hern - 13 May

Highest music video since Snoop Dogg's last one.
CAPITAL LETTERS, little girl voice: internet feminists all write the same

By Martha Gill - 09 May

The perils of Groupthink - Martha Gill's "Irrational Animals"
Urban novelties

By Sarah Ditum - 08 May

These Pages Fall Like Ash turned a city into a fantasy

Economics

Renewable energy to save consumers between £25 and £100bn

By Gordon Edge - 23 May

A new government report outlines the economic case for renewable
Triple dip remains successfully avoided in GDP second estimate

By Alex Hern - 23 May

Stagnation continues, writes Alex Hern.
The slow burn of food prices is squeezing the world dry

By Duncan Green - 23 May

A new Oxfam report reveals the crushing effects of roller-coaster
Voices of austerity

By Mary O'Hara - 22 May

A new project aims to give a voice to the people harmed by
Will the left focus on what money can't buy, or on what money shouldn't buy?

By Alex Hern - 21 May

Alex Hern speaks to Michael Sandel about morality in politics and
The best way to fix the long term is with more short-termism

By Alex Hern - 20 May

People don't like thinking about hard problems while the economy

World affairs

Why the European ideal is under threat

By Mark Mazower - 19 May

The certainties that sustained notions of European unity and
Obama's crappy week

By Nicky Woolf - 17 May

In just a couple of days, Obama's government machine had managed
A lone voice for peace

By James Harkin - 16 May

An interview with Haytham Manna.
In a generation, everything has changed for British Muslim women

By Irna Qureshi - 15 May

My mother and I both married men from Pakistan. Both marriages
Israel row: The bid to defund Toronto LGBT Pride is straightforward censorship

By Peter Tatchell - 15 May

The bid to ban pro-Palestine group Queers Against Israeli
Tonderai Ndira's Zimbabwe: five years on

By Mark Olden - 14 May

Amid all the bloodshed of Zimbabwe’s 2008 election, it was the

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