The future of energy: smarter technology, smarter behaviour
The future of energy in the UK is complex – it will have a whole host of variables in play.The future of energy in the UK is complex – it will have a whole host of variables in play. These include the...
View ArticleBeware simple answers?
These are times of profound challenges for the energy industry and for climate change policy both in the UK and globally – being able to keep prices low, dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions...
View ArticleWhy the Tories shouldn't get excited about "good" economic news
The economy might appear to be improving but forecasters predict a "triple-dip recession" and rising unemployment. This week's economic news has prompted hope among the Tories that the tide is finally...
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In pictures: Ai Weiwei launch party
Photos from the launch of Ai Weiwei's guest-edit of the New Statesman at The Lisson Gallery in London. Sarah Churchwell with New Statesman culture editor Jonathan Derbyshire and Craig Raine. New...
View ArticleFriday Arts Diary
Our cultural picks for the week ahead.Festival Battle of Ideas, Barbican, EC2, 20-21 October The Battle of Ideas is a weekend of lectures, panel discussions and “conversations” on a wide range of...
View ArticleMukhtar Mai - the gang rape victim who defied her attackers
An interview with the Pakistani rape victim who became an iconic advocate of women's rights. Mukhtar Mai is a woman from a village in the Muzaffagarh district of Pakistan. In 2002, she was gang-raped...
View ArticleWhat the church owes to secular feminism
Rowan Williams's campaign to ordinate women bishops. Ahead of the Synod vote scheduled for 20th, Rowan Williams has "launched a campaign" to secure what would be his most significant legacy, the...
View ArticleGilbey on Film: Dressing to impress
Hollywood Costume - review.Top of most cinemagoers’ to-do list over the coming months should be to catch the V&A’s Hollywood Costume exhibition, which opens on Saturday and runs until 27 January...
View ArticleAfter the energy shambles, Cameron needs to restore certainty
The timing of this week’s confusion could not have been worse.The last three days have seen government policy on energy tariffs and decarbonisation in flux. Conflicting statements from the Prime...
View ArticleKoji Wakamatsu, 1936-2012
Militant filmmaker dies at the age of 76. It is criminal to shoot from a powerful point of view (Koji Wakamatsu) In a cinematic year that is proving painfully costly, we learn of yet another death....
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Andrew Mitchell resigns as Chief Whip
The fallout from "Plebgate" claims Mitchell, four weeks on, as he admits telling Downing Street police "I thought you guys were supposed to f***ing help us".The news has just broken that Andrew...
View ArticleDr Ben Goldacre vs the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
The ABPI responds to Dr Ben Goldacre's book, Bad Pharma.In Helen Lewis' review of Ben Goldacre's Bad Pharma, she quoted his damning indictment of the pharmaceutical industry: “Drugs are tested by the...
View ArticleMitchell's departure leaves Cameron looking weak
Rather than sacking his Chief Whip, the Prime Minister prevaricated. The decision of Andrew Mitchell to resign was undoubtedly the right one. Having lost the respect of many of his Tory colleagues, he...
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Sir George Young appointed new Chief Whip
The man nicknamed the "Bicycling Baronet" is announced as Andrew Mitchell's replacement.After earlier briefing that the new Chief Whip would not be announced until tomorrow, Downing Street has just...
View ArticleMorning Call: pick of the papers
The ten must-read comment pieces from this morning's papers. Pity the MPs who know not what they claim Telegraph If only there had been a kind of precedent – an expenses scandal, say – to guide the...
View ArticleMissouri priest's homophobic speech has a surprisingly heartwarming twist
Saying more than that would give the game away...This video, brought to our attention by our legal correspondent David Allen Green, just shows that sometimes, it's really important to watch the whole...
View ArticleWho killed Charlotte Pinkney?
The disappearance of a teenager in a small Devonian town still raises questions nearly a decade later, writes Alan White. Ilfracombe, on the north coast of Devon, is one of those towns that isn’t...
View ArticlePaul Ryan and the obnoxious creed of Ayn Rand
It's easy to understand how Ayn Rand came to her dark judgement – but not why Paul Ryan thinks it will help him run the country.Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney’s running mate, has not received a fraction of the...
View ArticleIs Trenton Oldfield Our Pussy Riot?
Attack the elite and they won't take it lying down, writes Caroline Criado-Perez.On 17th August 2012, Pussy Riot, a feminist punk collective based in Moscow were jailed for two years for “hooliganism”....
View ArticleQuote of the Day
Michael Gove on Andrew Mitchell. There's a Japanese film, I think it's called Rashomon, in which different participants who see the same event all have different recollections of it. I wasn't there. I...
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