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In this week’s New Statesman: Something’s Rotten
Power, corruption and lies: the British establishment in crisis. PLUS: Brian Moore on why abuse victims don't speak out, and a special report on Malala Yousafzai, the girl who defied the Taliban. For...
View ArticleSkyfall - review
Daniel Craig has relaxed into Bond without losing any steeliness. Skyfall (12A) dir: Sam Mendes If the first two films in Daniel Craig’s tenure as James Bond adopted a new broom approach, the mood of...
View ArticleThe ADgender: Costa makes coffee unsexy again
This week's oddest advert.Coffee can have a strange effect. It's easy to spot the morning jitterers, who've either had too much or too little, waiting at the bus stop clasping a twitching arm to keep...
View ArticlePakistan mustn't let another young woman fall prey to the same fate as Malala...
Samira Shackle reports from Pakistan.Two weeks after the shooting of 15 year old schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai became international news, another teenager from the same region has said she fears she is...
View Article我和蒙牛
2011年12月24日，媒体爆出，“蒙牛乳业”产品被检测出黄曲霉素M1，一种剧毒的可致癌物质，超标140%。网友“a_mao”发微博说，希望于建嵘或者王小山能站出来，带头抵制蒙牛。12月27日，我发微博宣布开始抵制蒙牛，内容是：鉴于2008年后蒙牛产品多次含有危害人体健康成份，故承诺：拒绝饮用蒙牛产品，劝说别人拒绝蒙牛产品，告诉别人蒙牛是垃圾企业，尽量不为蒙牛工作，不接蒙牛订单，不接蒙牛广告，尽量拒...
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Out with the old: a photo essay by Ai Weiwei
China's architecture has transformed over the past decade, but at what cost? In the past ten years, China's urban landscape has changed beyond all recognition. Construction programmes across the...
View ArticleIn the Critics this week
Richard Mabey on autumn, Jason Cowley on George Osborne and Sarah Churchwell on A M Homes.In the Critics section of this week’s New Statesman, Richard Mabey, in his final seasonal diary (autumn),...
View ArticleThe Scottish independence campaign is losing ever more ground
One in four supporters have deserted the nationalist cause in 2012.At last, they’re off. Last week’s "Edinburgh Agreement" ended nine months of argument between the Scottish and UK governments over how...
View ArticleThe hazards for independent Chinese cinema
Zhu Rikun writes about the perils of trying to make political films in an authoritarian state.In April 2011, less than a month before the opening of the eighth Beijing Independent Documentary Festival...
View ArticleShell and BP accused of collusion in South Africa
A six-company price-fixing racket spanning decades.The South African Competition Commission has called for six oil companies – Shell, BP, America’s Chevron, France’s Total and domestic producers Sasol...
View ArticleMengniu and I
Documentarist Wang Xiaoshan writes about the corruption at Mengniu Dairy.On 24th Dec, 2011, the media revealed that Mengniu Dairy products had been tested positive for excessive Aflatoxin M1, a toxic,...
View ArticleMossman on music: So '80s!
The 25th anniversary of Peter Gabriel's classic album. Peter Gabriel says he was advised to do the iconic black and white cover for So because “my usual obscure LP sleeves alienated women”. His four...
View ArticleWe can now elect police officers: but will anyone bother?
Let’s not waste this opportunity.It is now less than a month until the first police and crime commissioners are elected across the country. The policing minister Damien Green has described this as “the...
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Generation next: a photo essay
Four rising stars of Chinese photography give a glimpse into the country's youth culture and fashion scene. Zhe Chen Zhe Chen is an artist based between Los Angeles and China As a photographer, I...
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Between two worlds: a photo essay
In a remote corner of Tibet, life goes on as it did a thousand years ago, far from the transformation boom taking place in China's sprawling citiesThe photographs on these pages were taken by an...
View ArticleQuote of the Day
Barack Obama on ageing. Ignore the fact that there's no grey hair in that picture. Barack Obama admires his younger self as he casts an early election ballot in Chicago.
View ArticleMorning Call: pick of the papers
The ten must-read comment pieces from this morning's papers. 1. Economic crisis isn't over yet. This may not even be the beginning of the end (Guardian) Statistically, the UK is out of recession – but...
View ArticleTale of two companies: Apple's profit and Amazon's loss
Apple made $8bn profit last quarter, while Amazon lost $28m. Yet the two companies are treated as equally successful. Why?Two giants of the technology world posted their quarterly results yesterday...
View ArticleMichael Gove's muddled thinking on teacher training
The Education Secretary plans to introduce tougher tests for trainee teachers, whilst allowing academies to hire unqualified teachers. Whatever the merits or demerits of Michael Gove's plan to...
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