Is there such a thing as an ideal level of population?
Rather than yet another debate about immigration, let's have a proper debate about population growth.
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2011: The year in pictures | Mehdi Hasan on religion and violence | Norman Lamont on the euro | Slavoj iek
View ArticleThe Aztec history of your festive dinner
Dare to challenge the orthodoxy by refusing to incinerate your Christmas turkey.
View ArticleScience tells you that your opinion is worthless. Thats difficult
The NS Interview: Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw, physicists
View ArticlePity David Cameron: the Tory back benches are doing Ed Milibands job for him
For Tory MPs, the Prime Ministers bungled euro negotiations feel like treason.
View ArticleLeader: Too many feel that they have no stake in our unequal society
Britain is facing levels of inequality unknown since the Victorian era.
View ArticleEU cuts off oxygen to members
When the eurozone was set up, many people argued that having a currency without a government was a source of strength. In fact, writes Norman Lamont, it may be the thing that might kills off the...
View ArticlePayday loans: "Dont worry, love, they dont need your backstory!"
Welcome to the world of "zombie debtors".
View ArticleIt's austerity Christmas: buy now, pay considerably more later
Adverts for short-term loans are everywhere. These companies know that people are more cash-strapped than ever.
View ArticleLabour set for easy win in Feltham byelection
Poll puts Labour 22 points ahead but there is bad news for Ken.
View ArticleOn misogyny and female columnists
Nick Cohen's intervention is welcome but let's not kid ourselves that he "nailed" it first.
View ArticleRichard Dawkins to guest-edit the New Statesman Christmas issue
The Four Horsemen of New Atheism reunited, plus Philip Pullman, Carol Ann Duffy, Bill Gates and more. Out 13 Dec
View ArticleCameron goes to the crease with a bat broken by his own party
The real division in the Tory ranks is between those who know how impractical confrontation in Brussels would be, and those who don't care.
View ArticleIn the Critics this week
iek on Shakespeare, Barghouti on Palestine and Gray on the money.
View ArticleWeb Only: best of the blogs
The five must-read blogs from today, including Germany's fiscal fixation.
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