Other people's business, Thursday 26 April
Stand up gamblers and Credit Suisse.1. What politicians lost to Murdoch (Financial Times) Leveson's inquiry into the British press on Wednesday tackled one of the most pressing mysteries facing...
View ArticleReview: Damsels in Distress
The triumph of the squares in this idiosyncratic tale delights Ryan Gilbey.Damsels in Distress (12A) dir: Whit Stillman Back when Wes Anderson was fretting about handing in his homework and the world...
View ArticleGingrich's influence will still be felt
The Republican's with-us-or-against-us rhetoric will endure. Newt Gingrich is done. Well, he's been done. It just took a five-state primary smash by Mitt Romney to goad Gingrich into finally making it...
View ArticleGoodbye to Hitch
A New York memorial brought together Hitchens's comrades and friends. It was a fine goodbye to one of the New Statesman’s finest. Christopher Hitchens discovered himself as a journalist on the New...
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HSBC announces it will cut 3,167 jobs across the UK
2,217 employees will be made redundant.HSBC is to cut 3,167 jobs nationwide as part of its strategy to reduce its global workforce by 30,000 by the end of 2013. Britain's biggest bank, which currently...
View ArticleBarry Sheerman's "small English rant"
Why does a Labour MP think it is in the interests of his constituents to attack eastern Europeans?We've all been there: late for a train, starving, and so you're forced to buy some over-priced slop...
View ArticleIn the critics this week
A brief look at the Spring Books Special The Critics section of this week’s New Statesman is a Spring Books special that sees our critic at large, Sarah Churchwell looking back at the “annus mirabilis”...
View ArticleYou agree with this column
Why your brain avoids information it doesn't agree with.If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve already decided to agree with it. Here’s the curious thing about curiosity: we tend to seek out...
View ArticleIn this week's New Statesman: The puppet master
Jemima Khan meets George Galloway | NS Invesigation: Rendition | Michael Frayn tells NS: "I don't think I shall ever write anything again" George Galloway's conversion to Islam In a wide-ranging...
View ArticleThousands of Norwegians gather to sing song Breivik hates
The mass murderer said that the song "Children of the Rainbow" was a Marxist brainwashing tool.Despite the rain today, around 40,000 people gathered in Youngstorget square in Oslo to sing the song...
View ArticleActs of resistance
Who says political theatre has to be dull? Every day, we are presented with a knot of headlines warning of financial calamity, climate change and political corruption. Having recently been appointed...
View ArticleAusterity isn't working...
...and there's nothing wrong with saying "I told you so". But is anyone in government listening?Yesterday I returned to London from a family holiday in the United States - where a small stimulus has...
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Chart of the day: The Great Recession
This recession is significantly longer than, and almost as deep as, the one affecting Britain the 1930s. But looking at GDP growth hides the fact that some aspects of it are even worse: Nominally...
View ArticleWeb Only: the best of the blogs
The five must-read blogs from today, including Cameron's downgrading of environmental policy. 1. Cameron’s downgrading of environment policy bodes ill for the future The PM has not made a keynote...
View ArticleThe Royal Society has a beauty pageant moment
Scientists are good at science. That does not qualify them as advisors on world affairs.“So, Miss Royal Society, if there were three things you could change about the world, what would they be?” OK,...
View ArticleMy business head hurts
The ‘depression stigma’ is costing British business billions.As the UK economy slips back into recession, it’s almost possible to hear the collective sigh of the country, fearing for their jobs, their...
View ArticleJohnson Press: Zombie Company?
The company is saddled with huge debt.Johnston Press is known in some circles, rather unkindly, as a zombie company. This is because in blunt financial terms the main reason it exists is to enable it...
View ArticleHouse of Lords reform: what difference will it make?
Dichotomising appointment and election is not going to get us anywhere, but a quiet revolution might The reform of the House of Lords is again on the table. Having anticipated the Joint Committee’s...
View ArticlePolitical sketch: Laying the Sun King to rest
Rupert takes away all of the blame - none of the responsibility. In the end the Sun King just rambled on as might befit someone in his eighty-first year, and thus Rupert Murdoch was finally laid to...
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