Clegg’s new tone on the economy
The coalition needs to work on a climb down.It’s not every day you open the paper to read about a cabinet minister – one who isn’t the Chancellor - holding forth about the ‘instruction’ that has been...
View ArticleNick Clegg: Plan B "not a Plan B"
DPM denies priorities have changed.In an interview with the Financial Times, Nick Clegg has signaled that the coalition government will take on board the criticisms of the IMF and launch a "massive"...
View ArticleWant to know what citizenship means?
Don’t ask Bob Diamond, ask consumers…Barclays cynical appropriation of the ‘citizenship’ agenda proves that the shift towards responsible capitalism will not come from the boardroom. But neither...
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New Statesman: "Who speaks for British Jews?"
A sneak preview of the upcoming issue's cover and contents.This week's issue is a special on the British Jewish experience, with a signature essay by David Cesarani. Also in the issue: Ed Miliband on...
View ArticlePMQs review: Cameron stands by his man (that's Adrian Beecroft)
"You love the rich"; "you love the unions"; repeat, ad infinitumIt was a lively contest at PMQs today, with the Battle of Beecroft dominating Ed Miliband’s attack. The Labour leader opened with a...
View ArticleCameron rebuked for calling Balls a "muttering idiot"
PM forced to withdraw unparliamentary language.Any regular watcher of PMQs will be well-acquainted with David Cameron's temper. He lost it today with the Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, who seems to have...
View ArticleOther people's business, Wednesday 23 May
A ticking time bomb...1.Eurovision a good metaphor for lack of euro vision (Reuters) The euro zone crisis is everywhere, writes George Hay. 2. China doesn’t need a policy U-turn (Reuters) The last...
View ArticleUK retail sales values index up 0.4 per cent in April
However, retail sales volumes decline by 1.1 per cent.The all retail sales values index in the UK increased by 0.4 per cent in April 2012 compared to same period last year and decreased by 2.8 per cent...
View ArticleMore young people than ever struggling to move from education into work
New study finds that nearly half of NEETs in England now have no experience of sustained paid employment beyond casual and holiday work.The past decade has seen a major rise in young people aged 16 -...
View ArticleNo charges for BSkyB in new Competition Commission decision
Netflix and LoveFilm weaken the monopoly.The Competition Commission has ruled that BskyB will not face action over their monopoly of pay-TV film rights. The commission ruled that the existence of...
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Ed Miliband: the patriotism of a refugee
The Labour leader recalls how he imbibed Jewish history from his mother and father.“The first Jewish leader of the Labour Party.” It says something about me and about Britain that I am rarely described...
View ArticleCameron loses his rag: 5 of the best
Video clips of the Prime Minister losing his temper.David Cameron's temper is becoming legendary (and not in a good way), with Ed Miliband making concerted efforts to rile him in Prime Minister's...
View ArticleInvestors pay Germany to look after their money
Zero coupon bond sold for a yield of 0.07 per cent.The German government has sold €4.5bn of two-year government bonds at a record low yield of just 0.07 per cent. Not only that, but the bond was sold...
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Osborne must row back from one of the biggest blunders since the war
Our economics editor David Blanchflower takes the Chancellor to task.I have a candidate for the next chief economist at the Bank of England. Simon Wren-Lewis is an Oxford professor and fellow of Merton...
View ArticlePMQs sketch: Insults abound as quaffing beckons
Dave not so chillaxed after questions on vino and socialism.Ed Balls may or may not be useful to the Labour Party as Shadow Chancellor, but as insulter-in-chief to the Prime Minister he has no match....
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Chart of the day: Austerity round the world
This chart (via Brad Plumer) shows the predicted primary balance changes in ten OECD countries from 2011 to 2013. It also breaks the changes into those stemming from spending cuts, and those stemming...
View ArticleWhat did Piers Morgan tell Jeremy Paxman about phone hacking?
The Leveson Inquiry hears of an interesting conversation.Today at the Leveson Inquiry, Jeremy Paxman revealed he was present at a lunch in September 2002 when the then Mirror editor Piers Morgan...
View ArticleReview: Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson is out in the open and back on form, writes Ryan Gilbey. No evolutionary timeline is necessary to illustrate the career of Wes Anderson. His sensibility (bittersweet, archaic) and visual...
View ArticleThe "Muslim Schindler"
Remembering Abdol-Hossein Sardari.Have you heard of the “Muslim Schindler” who risked his life to save Iranian Jews in Paris during the Second World War? No? Neither had I, until a few months ago....
View ArticleCompetition: Stoke Newington Literary Festival
Win two weekend passes to festival sponsored by the New Statesman.The New Statesman is proud media sponsor of the third Stoke Newington Literary Festival. It’s year three of this eclectic, amusing,...
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