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Why falling exam results are not entirely a bad thing
A fall in GCSE grades.Today marked the first fall in the percentage of GCSE students gaining a “C” grade or above since the qualification was originally introduced. 69.4 per cent of papers were awarded...
View ArticleBehind the Britannia Unchained Tories
The Guardian has taken a look at the influential Tories behind next month's Britannia UnchainedThe Guardian has followed up on the unfavourable reaction to the extracts the Evening Standard published...
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The "war on motorists" is a myth
Everyone's feeling the pinch, but we shouldn't mistake that for a war on motorists.Motorists are feeling the pinch. Prices at the pump are rising while most people’s pay packages have barely kept up...
View ArticleThe grotesque manipulations of Anders Breivik
Åsne Seierstad questions a system that gives Anders Breivik publicity.On 24 August, the verdict against Anders Behring Breivik will be pronounced at Oslo District Court. He has acknowledged having...
View ArticleBarker criticises government austerity plan
Kate Barker speaks out against cuts. Kate Barker, former member of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) at the Bank of England, has written a report in which she is highly critical of the government’s...
View ArticleShadow Dancer – review
Glances say more than words in this IRA thriller, writes Ryan Gilbey.Shadow Dancer (15) dir:James Marsh One quandary for anyone making a thriller is how much to reveal to the audience and when. In...
View ArticleNadir gets 10 years
The former polly Peck Tycoon sentenced for theft. Former business tycoon Asil Nadir has been sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for stealing nearly £29m from Polly Peck International, the...
View ArticleOnly in Edinburgh
Reassuring signs of resurgence at the Edinburgh Fringe.The benchmark of my Edinburgh Fringe will forever be a 1994 late-night Ukrainian production of Othello in a public swimming baths. In Russian. I...
View ArticleTax dodging by foreign companies risks rendering aid pointless
The amount lost to foreign countries through tax dodging far outstrips the aid budget – and it could get worse.From caravans, to pasties and grannies, the tax U-turns performed by the Government after...
View ArticleIn this week's New Statesman: Ink-stained assasins
Can political cartoons survive in a digital age? Helen Lewis investigates. Ink-stained assassin: On the future of the political cartoon In our cover story this week, Helen Lewis reports on the fate of...
View ArticleA tense autumn to come in the Middle East
The international community must do everything possible to prevent further escalation across the region.Across the Middle East, the Arab Uprisings of the last two years have given way to an atmosphere...
View ArticleLong Day’s Journey into Night - review
Are we all addicts, deep down?Eugene O’Neil’s play has been re-mastered for 2012; performed at the Apollo theatre in London’s West End, at a time when the capital city is groaning with the pleasure and...
View ArticlePacking up the bike..
..and reaching the end of Europe.At the airport they'll wrap my bicycle in plastic. Round and round they'll spin it until it's all shut away and suffocating inside, waiting to be mistreated by baggage...
View ArticleThe complex relationship between Islamism and democracy
Moderate Islamism should be seen as a means of institutionalising religious conservatism.Last week’s murder of over twenty Shia Muslims and a brazen Taliban attack on a military base are just the...
View ArticleAtheism+: the new New Atheists
This new movement has an energy that makes it hard to ignore.Let me introduce you to Atheism+, the nascent movement that might be the most exciting thing to hit the world of unbelief since Richard...
View ArticleEmerging markets hit as M&A activity falls to seven-year low
Merger and acquisition activity falls globally. Merger and acquisition activity (M&A) fell globally in the first half of the year, led by falling activity across developed and emerging markets. A...
View ArticleMichael Gove: "I don't want to be prime minister. I couldn't do it."
Says he'll sign a parchment in his own blood to prove it.We had a "quote of the day" already this morning, but I think in light of comments Michael Gove has just made to Kay Burley on Sky, we might...
View ArticleHiggins destroys Tea Partier
Irish president goes head-to-head with conservative radio host Back in 2010, Michael Graham, a conservative American talk show host, interviewed Michael Higgins, president of Ireland. The interview...
View ArticleMaybe GCSE grades are falling because standards really are slipping
When just a third of school leavers can write an acceptable CV, then maybe GCSEs need an overhaul.I feel sorry for the young people getting exam results today – and not only those who haven’t got the...
View ArticleGM to invest $220m in two Ohio plants
The automaker will retain more than 5,000 jobs at its Parma and Lordstown plants.General Motors (GM) has confirmed that it will invest $220m in two plants in north-east Ohio – Lordstown and Parma –...
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