Gilbey on Film: Interview with Stephen King, 1978
Two years before its release, Stephen King discusses The Shining, Jack Nicholson and Stanley Kubrick I got a pleasant chill, entirely unconnected with the air conditioning, as I left the auditorium of...
View ArticleIn this week's New Statesman: India - The economic miracle implodes
William Dalrymple on India: can it ever become a superpower? PLUS: Sophie Elmhirst profiles Ai Weiwei and an "Autumn Books" special in the Critics. Rafael Behr: Cameron fantasises about the next big...
View ArticleReddit blocks Gawker in defence of its right to be really, really creepy
Links from Gawker are banned from /r/politics, after journalist threatens to reveal the identity of the man running Reddit's "creepshots", "beatingwomen" and "jailbait" forums.Links from the Gawker...
View ArticleMo Yan wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
Chinese author's "hallucinatory realism" is rewarded.The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the Chinese novelist Mo Yan. The Prize committee commended Mo's "hallucinatory realism",...
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Cheap, and far from free: The migrant army building Britain
Revealed: how job restrictions have left Romanian and Bulgarian construction workers underpaid and vulnerable to exploitation.The men gather in the shadow of the Wickes hardware store, looking out for...
View ArticleLife after a Twitterstorm
Tracking down a man whose arrogant email went viral, Alan White wonders: where is groupthink taking us?This is a story about a man I never met. His name is Stuart. Except it’s not Stuart, because I’ve...
View ArticleThe ADgenda: Levi's jeans
This week's most offensive advert.It's often exhausting watching adverts. The constant focus on self-improvement wears you down swiftly until you're left contemplating the futility of making that cup...
View ArticleIMF chief urges decisive action to solve "terrifying and unacceptable"...
Christine Lagarde issues stark warnings to US and eurozone politicians over mounting uncertainties in the global economy.The International Monetary Fund’s managing director Christine Lagarde has called...
View ArticleCredit rating agencies still not very good at rating credit
The University of Cambridge is apparently a safer investment than the UK.More ratings-agency craziness. Cambridge University is entering the bond market for the first time, and Moody's has rated its...
View Article“Statutory” is not a bogey word
Why statutory regulation of the press is itself neither a good nor a bad thing.In a striking passage in his essay “On Prejudice”, the great pamphleteer and critic William Hazlitt noted: Defoe says,...
View ArticleLabour has big questions to answer on education
Until there is a clear political answer to Cameron's offer of state schools that look like private ones, Labour isn’t seriously in the business of debating education policy.One of the most memorable...
View ArticleWhy do doctors struggle to communicate with their patients?
Many doctors turn their nose up at the art of communication, viewing it as potentially soft medicine.Last month, the GMC reported that the number of complaints regarding doctors have increased by 23...
View ArticleDavid Cameron's misappropriation of the word "privilege"
The Prime Minister says he wants to spread privilege - the IEA's Philip Booth really hopes that isn't what he meant.Given the constraints of political speech-making, David Cameron's effort earlier this...
View ArticleColbert knows I'm miserable now
Stephen Colbert interviews Morrissey. Morrissey is known for a lot of things: making music, draping himself in the Union Jack and making questionably nationalist comments, swinging bouquets of flowers...
View ArticleSecret diary of a businessperson who is also female
Naked nudity. The New Statesman's Businessperson Who Is Also Female asks why some women happily prance around naked in the office gym changing room only to then cover up in the presence of men in the...
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US vice-presidential debate liveblog
Our US blogger Nicky Woolf is live-blogging the vice-presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan. 10:38PM I'm going to give this to Biden. Clearly, after Romney's performance last week he'd...
View ArticleDortmund combats the new face of German neo-Nazism
A new-look neo-Nazi outfit, the Autonomous Nationalists, embody the shifting complexion of Germany’s far-right. Dortmund’s new generation of neo-Nazis have come along way. They wear the latest...
View ArticleWatch the US vice-presidential debate live
Starting at 2am BST, a live stream of Joe Biden and Paul Ryan's debate. Streaming Live by Ustream
View ArticleQuote of the Day
Simon Hughes on housing benefit cuts. Nick does agree with me. We’ve not signed up to cutting housing benefit and I don’t imagine for a moment we will. Simon Hughes insists on Question Time that the...
View ArticleMorning Call: pick of the papers
The ten must-read comment pieces from this morning's papers. 1. George Osborne's strivers have a shock in store (Guardian) The £10bn of extra welfare cuts will hit the strivers the Tories are courting...
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