Gadgets that hate: why it seems your toaster is conspiring to ruin your life
I need to tell you about something odd that’s been happening to me. Those of you who use the…
ByNew Statesman Magazine
In this week’s magazine
The Trump alliance
First Thoughts: The reality of state visits, why Trump shouldn’t be impeached, and Tebbit’s “cricket test”
Before Donald Trump’s arrival, Elizabeth II had hosted 112 state visits. Her first guests, in 1954, were the king…
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Why ambition is overrated
When I was 24, I left my permanent job of two years, my flat and my steady life in…
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Tory MPs may despise Boris Johnson but he is the man they think can win an election
By a margin of more than two to one, Conservative activists support the legalisation of euthanasia, a new YouGov…
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The Tinkerbell effect: is British politics on the brink of a Brexit realignment?
A series of opinion polls published in recent days have shown something unprecedented in British politics: four parties locked…
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Leader: The chill winds of isolation for Britain
Donald Trump’s state visit to Britain was a grim coda to Theresa May’s doomed premiership. The US presidency has…
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Rory Stewart’s Diary: My walk around Britain, hard borders and why politicians must talk about love
In my race to be Conservative leader and prime minister, I’m walking through different parts of the United Kingdom,…
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Commons Confidential: Michael Gove’s sweatless scampers
Tory dirty tricks are gathering pace when Jeremy Hunt’s campaign is claiming Michael Gove is unfit to be prime…
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Chris Mullin: “I see Britain’s slow decline into irrelevance”
For more than 30 years, Chris Mullin quite fancied the idea of writing a sequel to A Very British…
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Ghosts in the machines: the invisible human labour that lurks behind technology
At the AI: More than Human exhibition at the Barbican Centre in London, I spent a while playing with…
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How to get a Banksy off the wall
As the last sheet of protective plywood is pulled off the painting, a cheer goes up from the crowd.…
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The month of two D-Days
History will record this deed as an achievement of the highest order.
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Should we be practising “climate change optimism”?
It can be tempting to succumb to hopelessness over climate change, to view the most catastrophic climate forecasts as…
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Kevin Pietersen: Beast Of Man is a harrowing thriller about rhino poaching
“This is one of the rarest sounds you will ever hear on a podcast. Or anywhere.” A tantalising line.…
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Ali Wong’s star has risen
Not many Hollywood celebrities make their breakthrough while seven and a half months pregnant, but Ali Wong isn’t your…
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Emma Thompson’s Late Night lacks a crucial comic spark
In 30 Rock, Tina Fey transformed her experience of being the first female head writer on Saturday Night Live…
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Jeanette Winterson’s Frankenstein update suffers from an identity crisis
The ethics and possibilities of artificial intelligence (AI) creating entities that are more intelligent than humans is a hot…
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The Way To The Sea: Caroline Crampton’s praise-hymn to the Thames Estuary
Once, I stood on the bridge of a container ship as we headed from the River Medway out to…
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The Moon: an in-depth study of our closest celestial companion
Oliver Morton’s 2007 book Eating the Sun is a brilliant exploration of how that single star in our solar…
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The strange world of expensive beauty treatments for your lawn
I have often thought that both the environment and I would be better served if I placed my paper…
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Pubs are the jewel of socialism and must be saved from becoming soulless chains
Seeing off a friend at a pub near the station, I notice on the bar a pile of small…
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Neil Hannon Q&A: “I had no idea how little I understood about humanity“
Neil Hannon was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1970. He is known as the founder and frontman of…
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Forget the music – I think the bee tweet is what I’m going to be remembered for
I was sitting at the kitchen table reading something on my laptop, when I heard the buzzing sound and…
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