CEOs should lead corporate culture
But it takes a rare breed to do it.It’s become something of an obsession, particularly for business leaders under pressure. Perhaps one of the most unlikely advocates for the idea of corporate culture...
View ArticleGilbey on Film: Adapting Bret Easton Ellis for the screen
Director Paul Schrader has started shooting "The Canyons" with an original screenplay by Bret Easton Ellis. It’s heartening to hear that the director Paul Schrader has now started shooting The Canyons...
View ArticleSorry Ken, rent caps aren't the best answer to our housing crisis
Ken Livingstone correctly identifies many of the problems in the rental market. But a more workable solution than his proposed rent cap may be right under our noses, says Shelter's Robbie de Santos.Ken...
View ArticleThe art of losing isn't hard to master
Poetry and Olympic values. Winning the UK Olympic bid provided some interesting and irresistible challenges, that I felt poetry should be part of. Our greatest cultural contribution to the world, our...
View ArticleThe Shavian moment
Why are there so many George Bernard Shaw revivals?In January 1993, when the UK was in recession and unemployment exceeded 10 per cent, theatre critic Irving Wardle observed a number of George Bernard...
View ArticleWhat Lords Reform has done to the coalition's poll numbers
Two-thirds no longer think of Tories and Lib Dems as a "united team".Earlier this month. Conservative MPs forced the government to drop a motion which would have limited debate on the House of Lords...
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How the media shouldn't cover a mass murder
A look at the "Batman killer" front pages.Every time there's a mass shooting, I remember this piece of footage from Charlie Brooker's BBC series Newswipe. In it, a forensic psychiatrist outlines the...
View ArticleVince Cable, 69, thinks the "worship of youth" by political parties may be over
Whatever could the subtext be?In an interview with the Financial Times today, Vince Cable made some intriguing comments about the future of the Liberal Democrats. Asked whether he would ever run for...
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Vince Cable on whether he'd make a good Chancellor. "I probably would." The ever-modest Vince Cable tells Newsnight he would make a good Chancellor.
View ArticleSearching for Sugar Man - review
A forgotten singer is relaunched a little too late.Searching for Sugar Man (12A) dir: Malik Bendjelloul Cinema never used to have much time for the musician with limited or exotic appeal: music...
View ArticleEven more universities join the £9,000 club
Remember when ministers promised £9,000 fees would be "exceptional"?However much they may now deny it, Tory and Lib Dem ministers said that universities would only charge tuition fees of £9,000 in...
View Article2012: UK's biggest ever investment drive starts today
Could generate £1bn of UK deals. More than 4,000 business leaders and politicians are gathering in London for an Olympics investment conference that the government says could generate £1bn of UK deals....
View ArticleUS Senate does something unbelievable: passes a bill
Taxmaggedon's not averted, but the competition is on fair groundThe United States got a little more likely to avoid Taxmaggedon yesterday, as the Senate voted narrowly to pass the Democrats' bill...
View ArticleCameron needs to invest in Britain before the world will
The PM's plea for the world to "invest" is the cry of a desperate man. After yesterday's stunningly bad GDP figures, David Cameron's plea for the world to "invest in Britain" can't help sounding...
View ArticleValve panics as Windows 8 prepares to drink Steam's milkshake
Platform owners gear up to leverage their power.Gabe Newell, the auteur head of Valve, has threatened to move his company's digital distribution platform, Steam, to Linux in response to the locked-down...
View ArticleThe truth about animal testing
The use of animals in medical research is inevitable, but no one can deny that something needs to change.Every summer, hundreds of thousands of women run the five-kilometre Race for Life to raise money...
View ArticleIn the Critics this week
Richard Mabey on summer, Leo Hollis on London’s tech transformation, Will Hutton on a new kind of capitalism and Toby Litt on Elizabeth Fraser. The New Statesman’s special London issue this week...
View ArticleRevolt in Syria by Stephen Starr - review
Revolt in Syria: Eye-Witness to the Uprising By Stephen Starr C Hurst & Co, 232pp, £14.99 Having lived in Syria for several years, I have always been sceptical about the coverage of the uprising....
View ArticleCaption competition: Miliband meets Romney
What is "Mr Leader" saying to the Republican candidate? Here's Mitt Romney meeting Ed Miliband at the Labour leader's office this morning. But what is the man Romney called "Mr Leader" saying to the...
View ArticleWarsi is cleared but her future remains uncertain
Cameron refuses to guarantee that Warsi will remain Conservative co-chairman. To the undoubted dismay of her many enemies, Sayeeda Warsi has been cleared of any wrongdoing over her expenses by the...
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