3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (221+ words) New Statesman “I’m better than you are!” “I’m better than you are!” Those lines are from the 1964 movie, Fail Safe, screamed by Colonel Cascio, a right-wing officer in the American Strategic Air Command. After he is told to order the…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (186+ words) newstatesman.com In Don DeLillo’s 2007 novel Falling Man, after escaping the North Tower on 11 September 2001, his face covered in ash and glass splinters, Keith Neudecker returns to his estranged wife, Lianne, to find that they were “ready to sink into…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (212+ words) New Statesman “He was the future once,” David Cameron observed, mockingly, during his first exchange with Tony Blair at Prime Minister’s Questions back in 2005. The remark was cutting because it poked fun at one of Blairism’s most fundamental conceits: that…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (122+ words) New Statesman Vicky Spratt (Cover Story, 4 September) made some good points about intergenerational equity, but too easily equated class with housing tenure. Pondering the definition of middle vs working class, she writes that “once it may have been as simple…...

4+ day, 28+ min ago   (138+ words) New Statesman Today’s Prime Minister’s Questions (9 September) was only Andy Burnham’s second in the job, and was the final session before MPs head off on conference recess next Tuesday (15 September). Here’s what we learned. Kemi Badenoch continued on a theme…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (164+ words) New Statesman It was at one of Westminster’s summer parties, in a room high up, overlooking the Thames, with warm white wine swirling, that Ed Miliband made his first extended public remarks as the UK’s new Foreign Secretary. It was…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (198+ words) New Statesman At the 1878 Congress of Berlin, the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck famously said that Albania was nothing more than “a geographical expression”. To counter this sentiment, Albanian leaders established the League of Prizren to advance Albanian interests and…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (172+ words) New Statesman On 17 August, Israel’s Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, appeared on a podcast hosted by a former hostage held in Gaza. “I think targeted assassinations should be carried out in Gaza, taking down 30 to 40 every night,” he said....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (145+ words) Beijing is calling Trump’s bluff over Iran New Statesman In the run-up to the Trump administration’s vaunted “economic D-Day” for Iran, the US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent invoked Roosevelt and Churchill as he vowed to wage the “single greatest financial…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (221+ words) New Statesman It is odd to think how, as recently as 15 years ago, criticism of Silicon Valley’s products and services was considered provocative and heterodox. A new genre known as “tech-lash” literature emerged in the wake of Jaron Lanier’s You…...