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Craig Foster Q&A: “My theme tune? The sound of a whale’s ear bone”
The New Statesman· 3 days agoThe Oscar-winning documentary-maker on marine biology, invading isopods, and the regenerative power...
How Take That helped me embrace middle age
The New Statesman· 3 days agoMy recognition of this came in the early hours of Sunday morning, in Manchester, as my girlfriends and I sipped a very-much-not-needed gin and tonic....
Letter of the week: Why we must make Putin pay
The New Statesman· 3 days agoWrite to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
Gaza and the new digital divide
The New Statesman· 3 days agoIn late-1970s West Germany, the subject of my student-day outrage was US support for Latin American dictatorships. The media was the most important...
Student power
The New Statesman· 5 days agoThe Gaza protests at Columbia University, like the anti-war protests of April 1968, have proved as contagious as Covid. In May 1968, the events at...
The crisis on England’s maternity wards is worse than I imagined
The New Statesman· 5 days agoGood maternity care “is the exception rather than the rule” in England, according to today’s report...
Joe Biden is deluded on Rafah
The New Statesman· 4 days agoPresident Joe Biden apparently learned everything he knows about the Middle East from the Charlton Heston film The Ten Commandments, released when Biden...
Will Robert Jenrick’s Tory leadership pitch work?
The New Statesman· 3 days agoWith all the tension in the run-up to the local elections and the anti-climax that followed, you’d be forgiven for thinking the shadow Tory leadership...
Do Tory defections to Labour herald a realignment?
The New Statesman· 2 days agoConservatives are switching to Labour. Evidently, a significant proportion of Tory voters are switching to Labour (as every opinion poll tells us) but...
PMQs review: Sunak and Starmer need to grow up
The New Statesman· 3 days agoAfter Natalie Elphicke’s shock defection last week, there has been fevered speculation (some, if we’re honest, far from serious) about whether a third...
