Quantcast
Browsing all 11165 articles
Browse latest View live

Cameron’s candid camera

Eagle-eyed viewers spotted PR Dave's maniacally darting pupils.

View Article


Bishop Chartres arrived at St Paul’s like Churchill at the Admiralty

View Article


The lost lion of Kabul

In 2000, after the flight of the mullahs, one Pashtun warlord offered a viable way of uniting the factions in Afghanistan and finishing off the Taliban. His name was Abdul Haq. First, the CIA supported...

View Article

A conspiracy of optimism

Max Benitz spent months as a journalist with British troops on the front line in Helmand. Here, he reflects on the muddled thinking that characterised the early years of the Afghan conflict.

View Article

An offshore island in the Thames

If you want financial reform, the City is a good place to start.

View Article


Holmes and away

Arthur Conan Doyle is cherished as the creator of one of the best-loved detectives in English literature – but his talents as an author ranged far and wide, from science fiction to swashbucklers.

View Article

Top Boy (Channel 4)

Rachel Cooke celebrates a young actor she never tires of watching.

View Article

Rich and red and laced with politics

Nina Caplan launches her Drink column for the New Statesman with a tour of that most unlikely of bibulous states — Lebanon.

View Article


In this week's New Statesman: The NHS 1948-2011, so what comes next?

Helen Lewis-Hasteley on sexism online | Mehdi Hasan on nuclear Iran | Andy Burnham on NHS and the markets

View Article


Grand Pursuit: the Story of Economic Genius

The ideological fantasies of modern economics.

View Article

"The Sway of a Coastal Pine Tree"

View Article

Others may swoon, but I’ll never love Man City

View Article

Christopher Hitchens night: a review

Stephen Fry, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, Sean Penn and others unite to celebrate Hitchens.

View Article


Sublime intervention

Bombino and the Tuareg guitar revolution.

View Article

Gordon Taylor is not a royal princess

A key question at today’s select committee hearing.

View Article


Rick Perry's fate sealed by an "Oops"

To think that all those millions of dollars raised should come to this: a man who looks too stupid to win the nomination.

View Article

Political sketch: No respect for the Murdoch family

James Murdoch's second stint in front of the Culture committee.

View Article


Mike Tyson spoofs Herman Cain

"The Tea Party loves crazy even more than they hate blacks".

View Article

Ed Miliband might have read too much into phone-hacking

The Labour leader's stance against the Murdochs was a turning point of sorts, but it didn't change the rules of the game

View Article

Morning Call: pick of the papers

The ten must-read pieces from this morning's newspapers.

View Article
Browsing all 11165 articles
Browse latest View live