Kofi Annan 1938-2018: his 2016 interview with Gordon Brown
The late UN secretary general discussed the EU’s future with Brown ahead of the 2016 UK referendum.
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A special issue on Britain in Europe
Cold comforts: exploring the uncertainty of climate change through fiction
The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan reviewed.
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“Stone Love (for Tracey Emin)”: a poem by Carol Ann Duffy
“My hand on what I take from time and this world / and the stone’s shadow there on the grass…
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Commons confidential: Ground control to Major Tim
Ukip splits, Tim Peake’s gagging order and sniggering at a Downing Street spinner.
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Live and let live: inside the Free Republic of Liberland
A Czech politician dreams of a libertarian microstate in Europe.
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What does Europe mean to you?
Friends of the NS – including Stephen Hawking, Helena Kennedy, Geoff Dyer and Joan Armatrading – tell us what Europe means to them.
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Leading, not leaving: Gordon Brown makes a positive case for Europe
Our guest editor introduces a special issue of the New Statesman on Britain and Europe.
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Why David Cameron’s Harold Wilson tribute band faces a hostile crowd
The echoes of 1975 in the current EU debate.
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Leader: Lost honour
Boris Johnson and Michael Gove are now at the head of one of the most rancid campaigns in recent electoral…
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No country is an island: the right and wrong ways of thinking with history
The problem is in the kind of history people are thinking with.
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Speaking in tongues: the greatest European novels, chosen by NS friends and contributors
From Roddy Doyle to Lionel Shriver, friends of the NS share their favourite European novels.
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You are the quarry: tuneful vibrations in a Tuscan marble quarry
Radio transformed this frontier region of chestnut forests leading up to the Apennines.
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In the BBC’s Reg, we see the story of the man who took on Tony Blair over Iraq
Plus: gently but genuinely funny sitcom Mum.
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Naked sleepwalking, going native in Spain, and the real threat to the NHS and the BBC
Plus: why the EU referendum is our Hillary Clinton v Donald Trump moment.
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Student intolerance, the rise of the New Young Fogeys and John Major’s antique diction
NS Editor Jason Cowley on young fogeys and John Major’s antique diction.
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The EU is undemocratic and run in the interests of business. But it’s our least-worst option right now
The reason why nobody in either the Leave or the Remain camp can come up with a strong and…
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Trump’s chilling confidence, Boris’s immortal longings and why England have no chance
Trump once called me “vicious, arrogant, obnoxious, possibly evil”. Which may be true.
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The revolution will be tax-free: the libertarian dreams of the Koch brothers
The billionaire brothers who tried to buy the US presidency.
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Rethinking sovereignty: why “taking back control” is an empty slogan
“Let’s take back control” is an empty slogan unless doing so improves prospects for British citizens.
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Are we really living in the age of the second Renaissance?
The sense of an old order degenerating and a new one not yet born recalls the fin de siècle…
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Blogging for peace: the reach of digital resistance in the Middle East
Naked Diplomacy: Power and Statecraft in the Digital Age by Tom Fletcher reviewed.
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Travelling 320 years through the mind of Annie Proulx in Barkskins
Forest ecology, indigenous culture, sea voyages, Dutch culture, colonial and Maori culture, the logging industry: all these subjects and…
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“How To Vote If You Are A Flat Cloud”: a poem by Patrick Mackie
Europe is being painted once again by Giorgio de Chirico, he knows enough for one thing to ignore the…
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Metaphors for madness: the new wave of mental health memoirs
It is no accident that women are writing in ever greater numbers about their mental anguish and pain.
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In Where to Invade Next, Michael Moore lays bare what America gets painfully wrong
Plus: eloquent storytelling around the refugee crisis in Fire at Sea.
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A case for Brixit: the escape and reinvention of the Fall’s first lady
Kate Mossman experiences a day in the life of Brix Smith Start.
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An island, but not in isolation
Why we should not be isolationist.
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Eddie Izzard: Why young people must be heard in the EU debate
If people don’t take their opportunity to determine their own future, other people will do it for them.
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Being a part of something larger than states and empires is a source of optimism and inspiration
The greatest failure of the Remain campaign is its pessimism.
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For the sake of peace and jobs, the EU we in Ireland most want is one that has the UK in it, too
How Brexit would threaten the UK’s relationship with Ireland.
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Rival national interests no longer rule the world. The best way to be a force for good is working together
A decision to leave the EU will have consequences for the developing world that we have barely begun to…
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Travel back in time to 1970s Britain and see for yourself why people were so slim
Carbohydrate, fat: it doesn’t really matter. Eat less and do more.
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Freud said there’s no such thing as accidents. So why did I miss the closing night of the Duke?
It is shut. I can see this from some way off. The familiar lights are dark, the outside tables…
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The graceful dance of shape-shifting hares
Hares should be ubiquitous on these hills and gorselands at dusk, enchanting us with their elegant play.
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Last week, I went to one restaurant three times and had the same meal – but I didn’t really go for the food
It’s not a great restaurant, but that doesn’t bother me, because the important thing about Joe Allen in Covent Garden…
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From Trump to Boris, I wouldn’t write The Thick of It now – politics already feels fictional enough
I now find the political landscape so alien and awful that it’s hard to match the waves of cynicism…
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Ban Ki-moon: “Accepting refugees is a win for everyone”
Gordon Brown talks to Ban Ki-moon.
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Debunking the Brexit myths
Four-fifths of scientists support staying in the EU. Here is why.
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