Osborne: Labour is being "opportunistic" just like Hague's Tories
The Chancellor says that Labour's "unprincipled" behaviour over the EU budget was like that of the Tories under William Hague. After David Cameron suffered his first major Commons defeat over the EU...
View ArticleThe Tory left is in crisis - but no one in the party cares
Where are the successors to one nation giants like Michael Heseltine, George Young and Chris Patten?As George Osborne announced huge cuts to benefits for the mentally ill and the disabled, Andrew...
View ArticleThe government has lost the economic argument around immigration
It now straddles two contradictory claims.Gus O'Donnell, the former head of the civil service, has written in an article in the Times that the government is "shooting itself in the foot" with its...
View ArticleSandy isn't a Democrat or a Republican
Hurricane an undecided voter.As Obama returns to the campaign trail today, everyone is wondering whether Hurricane Sandy will influence the election. A brief scout around the blogosphere tells us not...
View ArticleThe "Fiscal Cliff" would drag America into certain recession
Congress must overcome its partisan rifts.Irrespective of next week’s election, the fiscal challenges facing the next US government are vast. As the country races towards January’s “fiscal cliff”, the...
View ArticleWho’s picked up a Penguin?
The merger of Penguin and Random House shows that our publishing industry is following the music industry into consolidation and quasi-monopoly.In the mid-1930s, George Orwell wrote that “the Penguin...
View ArticleA much-hyped movie will only deliver over time
Ryan Gilbey on "The Master" and "The Shining".The Master (15); The Shining (15) dirs: Paul Thomas Anderson; Stanley Kubrick Among the emerging American film-makers greeted in the mid-1990s with the...
View Article"People affected by the child benefit cuts have probably not considered what...
Business quote of the day."Many people affected by the child benefit cuts have probably not considered what the true cost will be to them over time" Alex Henderson, tax partner at...
View ArticleWill the Lib Dems cave in to Osborne over deeper cuts?
Ahead of the Autumn Statement, the Chancellor is considering even larger cuts in order to meet his debt target. One of the biggest dilemmas facing George Osborne ahead of the Autumn Statement on 5...
View ArticleExtremist fighters are only a fraction of the rebels fighting in Syria
Recent media coverage would have us believe Syria is now flooded with foreign extremists. On the ground, Toby Muse finds something quite different.Recent media coverage of Syria’s uprising has fixated...
View ArticleFrom high-brow to hi-tech: Shakespeare on the iPad
The launch of a new literature app sees the world's most famous playright re-invented for the digital age.Once again, the luddites are being left behind. If you are the sort of person who associates...
View ArticleIn this week’s New Statesman: What if Romney wins?
Nicky Woolf, Mehdi Hasan, Nicholas Wapshott and Mark Leonard write in our US Election Special. PLUS: Rafael Behr on the death of the middle class dream and Rachel Cusk on "the anorexia statement"....
View ArticleEurozone unemployment swells to record high
Joblessness rate balloons to 11.6 per cent. In latest confirmation that the eurozone crisis is far from relenting, unemployment in the 17-country bloc reached a staggering 18.5 million in September,...
View ArticleGolden Dawn’s third place in the polls is not all it seems
The party is only third because of the collapse of others around it.Polls in Greece show the far-right Golden Dawn party would come third were an election held tomorrow. The party’s policies include...
View ArticleLabour's pro-Europeans are wilting away
At the top of the party there are no real evangelicals for Europe any more.There was a time in Labour circles when to be pro-European was regarded as A Good Thing. Actually, it was more than that....
View ArticleTelegraph institutes paywall overseas
Is the paper abdicating US growth in favour of a quick buck?The Guardian's Josh Halliday reports that the Telegraph has launched a paywall for online readers based outside of the UK: Telegraph.co.uk is...
View ArticleWhy Eco-Actif went bust: A brief history of UK plc
We keep voting for governments that tell us that private is best, but there's little evidence to support it.On Friday 13 July, a strange thing happened. Eco-Actif Services, a Community Interest Company...
View ArticleIn the Critics this week
David Priestland on popular history, Anthony Horowitz interviewed and Sarah Churchwell on Henry James. In the Critics section of the New Statesman this week, historian David Priestland argues that “the...
View ArticleComet to go into administration
The most notable high-street demise since Woolworths. Electrical retailer Comet is set to become the latest in a mounting list of casualties on Britain’s struggling high-street, putting 6,500 British...
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Apple reprimanded over Samsung non-apology
"Inaccurate and misleading".When Samsung won its UK court case against Apple earlier this year, the judge ruled that Apple had to take out advertisements in several major UK newspapers, as well as post...
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