4+ day, 21+ 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…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (173+ words) New Statesman The rumour mill works quickly at a temporary mass-arrest jail in Washington DC. It had been only an hour since I was bundled out of a police van into a freezing warehouse filled with rows of fold-out plastic chairs…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (215+ words) New Statesman Nigel “has only got one ball”. John Sweeney is already singing by page three of this crude and disorganised biography, and he hopes we’re singing along with him, or at least whistling. He knows we know the song,…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (329+ words) newstatesman.com Outside the sleek midcentury Nordic Pavilion in the centre of the Giardini della Biennale, a severed head made of raw untreated bronze is supported by a tripod of reinforced steel piles – like the stakes used to brace Venice’s…...

5+ day, 2+ hour 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…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (138+ words) Portsmouth’s anti-migrant protestors have given up on democracy New Statesman A planned, coordinated and “exceptionally well-organised” protest sees the Port of Dover – the UK’s biggest and busiest ferry port – shut down for hours. Despite footage showing hundreds of demonstrators in…...

1+ week, 37+ min ago   (257+ words) New Statesman “I believe”, intones the speaker at the Christian Fellowship for Reform, “that Jesus Christ is the ultimate Reformer”. The Reform party conference delegates are still arriving. Long queues of them have formed in the mouth of the Birmingham…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (100+ words) How Burnham’s Britain can gain the edge in life sciences New Statesman Our country has historically been at the forefront of innovation. We need to bw flexible to fend off competition By Preet Kaur Gill During my time as minister…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (175+ words) Reform conference: scandal rains on Farage’s parade newstatesman.com Brown envelopes, clandestine operations and secret meetings at Claridge’s Hotel. While Reform has already had two cash scandals this year, the latest seemed to surpass the others in colour and gall,…...

1+ week, 2+ 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…...