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Jason Cowley

Jason Cowley is editor of the New Statesman

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UK Politics
Eton eternal: How one school came to dominate public life
08 May 2013

New Statesman editor Jason Cowley speaks to Anthony Little, headmaster of Eton College, about the role of public schools, the new crop of Etonians ruling public life and Gove's education reforms.

Blogs
In death, Thatcher has been reborn into myth
17 April 2013

The Conservative Party has never recovered from what it did to Margaret Thatcher and from the legacy of bitterness that resulted.

The Staggers
Celebrating the New Statesman's biggest-ever issue
12 April 2013

A hundred years on, the magazine is the best it's ever been.

Magazines
Editor’s Note: A long and not always smooth history
12 April 2013

Jason Cowley recalls his first lunch with Peter Wilby, a warning from Tony Howard and champagne with Norman Mackenzie . . . who describes how dreadful Dick Crossman was, and how great Kingsley Martin.

News
The left struggled to understand Margaret Thatcher. When it finally did, the result was New Labour
08 April 2013

The New Statesman was at the forefront of anti-Thatcher campaigning. But in common with much of the left, it never properly understood the forces she unleashed.

UK Politics
With David Miliband gone, the party’s talent pool has just become even shallower
27 March 2013

He is indeed not coming back, and Labour has lost one of its brightest and best, writes the New Statesman's editor Jason Cowley.

Music and Performance
Reviewed: Macbeth at Trafalgar Studios
07 March 2013

The last king of Scotland.

Music and Performance
Back to the future – Kraftwerk at the Tate and Iraq war regrets
21 February 2013

Divisive arguments and musical nostalgia.

Blogs
The Iraq war and the left: ten years on
15 February 2013

Alongside pro-war cheerleaders like Christopher Hitchens, were those who expressed honest doubt and ambiguity, such as Ian McEwan.

Blogs
Miliband calls it right: tax income less and wealth more
14 February 2013

As the NS has long argued, Labour should fund tax cuts for low and middle earners by finding new ways of taxing static assets, such as mansions and land.

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