Books of the year 2017, part three: chosen by Joan Bakewell, Michael Moorcock, Olivia Laing and others
The New Statesman‘s friends and contributors recommend their top reads from the last 12 months.
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The plot to stop Brexit
Books of the year 2017, part two: chosen by Nicola Sturgeon, Alan Johnson, Sara Baume and others
The New Statesman‘s friends and contributors recommend their top reads from the last 12 months.
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Books of the year 2017, part one: chosen by Andrew Marr, George Osborne, Rose Tremain and others
The New Statesman‘s friends and contributors recommend their top reads from the last 12 months.
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Sophie Scott Q&A: “I’d like less Brexit – and two more days in the week“
The neuroscience professor talks London Zoo, New Labour, and pictures of thermostats on Facebook.
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Among green-faced witches and Corpse Brides, I felt the love of a family
Glitter appeared, and was thrown in the air, and we made our way to the dancefloor.
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Why does every home I stay in have a copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?
Once again, I don’t know where I’ll be spending the night.
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The man who lived with monkeys – and what he learned from them
Gabriel Cornelius von Max established a colony of monkeys at his house by Starnberger Lake.
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Long live the mildly eccentric competence of BBC local radio
Let us have more Abbie McCarthy playing SlimeLord’s “Existence is Shit” to the good people of Tunbridge Wells.
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The Boy with the Topknot combines the particular with the universal to brilliant effect
The BBC Two adaptation of Sathnam Sanghera’s memoir tackles questions of identity.
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Ingrid Goes West is a barbed LA comedy for the Instagram age
The Matt Spicer picture’s greatest asset is its star and producer, Aubrey Plaza.
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Amedeo Modigliani sought to portray instinctive humanity – but couldn’t outrun his own instincts
The Italian artist has come to personify la vie bohème. But it wasn’t always so.
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What Howards End can tell us about the social media age
The obvious idea that we have inner and outer lives is a crucial one for us to keep in…
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The fatal ambition of Gordon Brown
In his autobiography, My Life, Our Times, the former prime minister inadvertently reveals the real reasons he failed to live…
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Travels in Belgium, the dysfunctional, fractured state at the heart of the EU
Donald Trump called Belgium a “beautiful city”. One British prime minister said that it was “not even a country”.
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The plot to stop Brexit
How Remainers of all parties are planning to keep the UK in the EU – and why they believe…
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What is OxyContin, the drug behind America’s opioid crisis?
Since 1999, 200,000 Americans have died from overdoses connected to OxyContin and similar prescription drugs.
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In sexual misconduct cases, we must not confuse accusation and proof
When it comes to the serving of justice, how appropriate is it to demand a quick fix?
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Commons Confidential: Nigel Farage was uncut and uncensored
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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How the arrest of Catalan separatists has aided their cause
Constitutions help protect citizens against abuses by lawmakers, but they can also be a straitjacket.
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By accepting that everything was a mess, we opened the door for Donald Trump
The narrative that western governments are systematically failing is taken as a given, rather than confronted.
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Joan Bakewell’s Diary: Talking to centenarians about death
The broadcaster on George Orwell, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, and making the theatre accessible.
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I’m beginning to believe there’s a Russian conspiracy to churn out online conspiracy theories
To internet hoaxers, making left-wingers argue with each other is good sport. But to state-sponsored trolls, it’s a front…
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Boris makes headlines – but these overlooked ministers truly endanger the Tories
The haplessness of Chris Grayling, a member of the cabinet since 2012, goes largely unnoticed.
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Why Johnson and Gove barely grasp the concept of compromise
As former journalists, they spent much of their lives mocking the faint-hearted.
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Leader: The Brexit betrayal
Leave leaders have entirely failed to keep the promises they made to their voters.
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