The Staggers

The New Statesman’s rolling politics blog

Why Britain can't afford to fall behind in the race for soft power
19 June 2013
The unsqueezed top: how bankers' pay has already returned to its peak
19 June 2013

Cultural Capital

Reflections on books and the arts from the New Statesman culture desk

I'm sick of hearing female comics censoring themselves - jokes are weapons to be used in battle
19 June 2013
Me, on the screen
19 June 2013

The Old Statesman

Notes from the NS archive

13 June 1953: There's nothing like a Coronation to test one's scepticism, one's innate Republicanism
04 June 2013
3 July 2000: Does protest need a vision?
02 May 2013

Austerity and its discontents

A group blog on Europe edited by Daniel Trilling

"A direct blow to democracy": the switch-off of Greece's state broadcaster
12 June 2013
In France, as elsewhere in Europe, the far right kills
10 June 2013

Rafael Behr

Inside Westminster

A Labour U-turn on free schools? It's not that simple
17 June 2013
Vince: minister for almost being on the left
13 June 2013

Laurie Penny

Pop culture, politics and feminism

The G8 comes to the “New Northern Ireland”, a place where no dissent will be tolerated
17 June 2013
If you live in a surveillance state for long enough, you create a censor in your head
17 June 2013

Alan White

Unreported Britain

Hold on to your hats: Nick Ross's book on crime is actually not bad
10 June 2013
The Secret Cuts: Part Two, The Independent Living Fund
06 June 2013

The V Spot

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett and Holly Baxter of the Vagenda Magazine

Modern feminists can learn a lot from Suffragette sitcom "Up the Women"
12 June 2013
Maria Miller's "information packs" for the parents of daughters won't end inequality
03 June 2013

Alex Andreou

Asking the questions others are too intelligent to ask

Controlling immigration: the snake oil of our time
08 May 2013
George Osborne: like Fernando Torres, only less effective
03 April 2013

Bim Adewunmi

Dispatches from the telly and pop culture wastelands

Despite everything, television still has an extraordinary amount of power
14 June 2013
When it comes to television, do we expect more of producers from minorities?
07 June 2013

Mehdi Hasan

Mehdi Hasan’s polemical take on politics, economics and foreign affairs

On wiretaps and drone strikes, it’s time for liberals to accept that Obama is worse than Bush
13 June 2013
As a Muslim, I struggle with the idea of homosexuality – but I oppose homophobia
20 May 2013

Glosswitch

A feminist take on parenting and politics

Julia Gillard "on the menu": Three cheers for a bit of in-your-face, no-frills sexism
13 June 2013
Three cheers for new children's laureate Malorie Blackman - an author who likes and trusts children
05 June 2013

Nelson Jones

Belief, disbelief and beyond belief

Is Pope Francis about to launch an anti-gay witchhunt in the Vatican?
14 June 2013
My brush with Bilderberg
10 June 2013

Helen Lewis

News and views about writing, eating, gaming and watching

No, the Internet, YOU shut up
11 June 2013
Why the world needs better loos
05 June 2013

Alex Hern

Dispatches from the front line of the internet

Are there ethical lapses in the Times' story on William's "Indian ancestry"?
14 June 2013
Completing the PRISM jigsaw puzzle
13 June 2013

Juliet Jacques

Exploring counter-culture in the arts, politics, sexuality and sport

Asunder by Chloe Aridjis: More interested in being than becoming
17 June 2013
Remembering Anthony Asquith’s Underground
03 June 2013

Nicky Woolf in America

The view from Middle America

Edward Snowden: The NSA whistleblower unmasks
09 June 2013
The NSA's data tapping: America through the PRISM
07 June 2013

Samira Shackle

On the margins: a look at race, culture, and world affairs.

The elections in Pakistan: After the street parties, will it be politics as usual?
13 May 2013
The Pakistan general election is fast approaching - but one community will not be casting votes
10 May 2013

Lez Miserable

Eleanor Margolis: sapphic cynic at large

Lez Miserable: "Here's my second coming out: I hate music festivals"
18 June 2013
Lez Miserable: How to speak Lesbianese
11 June 2013

Martin Robbins

Casting a sceptical eye on sex, media and politics

Check your sanity privilege: writing online can be bad for your mental health
30 April 2013
Giving space to Andrew Wakefield on MMR isn't balance, it's lunacy
13 April 2013

28 Dates Later

28 dates on 28 different dating sites. What could go wrong?

28 Dates Later by Willard Foxton: Part Nineteen, the New York Millionaire
13 May 2013
28 Dates Later by Willard Foxton: Part Eighteen, The London Cosplay Otaku
16 April 2013

Frances Ryan

Thoughts and reports on inequality, from disability to gender

If Facebook is serious about gender-based hate, why is it still hosting revenge porn?
18 June 2013
The next stage of the bedroom tax: families threatened with eviction
11 June 2013

David Allen Green

A critical and liberal look at law and policy

Will there finally be justice for Daniel Morgan?
10 May 2013
How the Ministry of Justice’s proposal for the tendering of criminal legal aid is misconceived and illiberal
23 April 2013

Michael Brooks

Here comes the science bit

It’s all gone pear-shaped
14 June 2013
It’s only natural – let’s make it better
30 May 2013

Kate Mossman on pop

Taking the long view on popular music

Once I Was An Eagle by Laura Marling: Whenever power emerges, there’s a sense of innocence lost
23 May 2013
Brian Eno: “How can Alastair Campbell have a TV career?”
16 May 2013

Voices

Views from elsewhere

Shame on Vice: There is nothing glamorous about being in so much pain you want to die
18 June 2013
Removing Elizabeth Fry from the five pound note isn't a small fry issue
18 June 2013

Killing Time

Phil Hartup on videogames

Getting the fear factor right: The secret of scary games
13 June 2013
Get good or get beaten: in praise of brutally hard games
24 May 2013

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