How Fox News hid the fall in unemployment
News channel's graph ignores fall in unemployment from 9 per cent to 8.6 per cent.
View ArticlePreview: Richard Dawkins interviews Christopher Hitchens
Exclusive extracts from the writer's final interview.
View ArticlePolitical sketch: The missing Clegg
"Most despised man in Britain" award: an annual gong handed out to the Deputy PM on a weekly basis.
View ArticleEven Dawkins does Christmas
It's the cultural prestige of religion that gives it access to power and buttresses its claim to speak on behalf of morality.
View ArticleMichael Chanan's video blog: Protest Chile
FILM: What happens when you turn education into a business?
View ArticleKeeping poetry outside the comfort zone
A poem is an active, not a contemplative, entity - it should channel disobedience
View ArticleIn the Critics this week
Pullman on fairy tales, Englund on war and Clee on an ebook Christmas.
View ArticleWeb Only: the best of the blogs
The five must-read blogs from today, including why Miliband should not embrace Clegg.
View ArticleNS Essay competition: Winner
Poverty Index Essay competition run by the New Statesman and the Webb Memorial Trust.
View ArticleNS Essay competition: Runner-up
Poverty Index Essay competition run by the New Statesman and the Webb Memorial Trust.
View ArticleCoalition should "come clean" on child poverty
Even the government doesn't think it can meet its own targets. A new plan is needed.
View ArticleUK inflation continutes to fall
The consumer prices index (CPI) dropped to 4.8 per cent in November from 5.0 per cent in October.
View ArticleRothermere denies agreeing peace deal with Desmond
Daily Mail proprietor discusses Daily Express "mud-slinging" at Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions hearing.
View ArticleFirst 20 locations for new UK Local TV stations revealed
Local TV will represent "a fundamental change in broadcasting", Hunt predicts.
View ArticleTessa Jowell in £200k NoW phone-hacking payout
Former Cabinet minister Jowell to donate half her damages to charity.
View ArticleMail denies taking calculated risks on breaching privacy
"You [try] to take a very, very careful decision whether or not [you are being] intrusive," said Liz Hartley.
View ArticleMary Portas' plan to save the high street
TV fashion adviser, commissioned by Cameron to review Britain's high streets, calls for urgent action.
View ArticleWhat lies behind the Tories' poll bounce?
The Tories surge past Labour in the polls after Cameron's rejection of a new EU treaty.
View ArticleLeader: Do you get it now, Prime Minister?
An open letter to the Rt Hon David Cameron MP from the New Statesmans Christmas 2011 guest editor, Richard Dawkins.
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