Jason Cowley
Articles by Jason Cowley
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Society
Don’t mention the family
- 22 August 2011
- 40 comments
Right-wingers have blamed the riots on “moral collapse” and absent fathers. Here, we invite 11 leading left-wing thinkers to respond and ask what the left has to say about family values.
Magazines
Editor’s Note — after Rowan Williams
- 23 June 2011
Jason Cowley on the fallout from the Archbishop of Canterbury’s guest edit of the New Statesman, including Cameroonian caution, conspiring Catholics and conspiracies of Cleggists.
UK Politics
“I can see another financial bomb going off”
- 26 May 2011
- 27 comments
Once a self-styled free radical, Vince Cable is now grappling with the compromises of power. Here he talks about the ferocity of the press, his pact with George Osborne and why he doesn’t feel sorry for Nick Clegg.
UK Politics
Ed Miliband has a departure point and a destination, but no route map
- 12 May 2011
- 28 comments
Miliband is torn between what he would like to do and what the conservatism of the wider political culture will allow him to do.
UK Politics
A tale of two weddings
- 27 April 2011
- 7 comments
The impending nuptials of Kate and Wills remind the New Statesman editor of another royal wedding 30 years ago. Like now, it was a time of social ferment.
Society
Jemima Khan, Julian Assange and the digitally savvy brain
- 20 April 2011
- 5 comments
The New Statesman editor reflects on the other-worldly WikiLeaks frontman and Jemima Khan’s extraordinary guest edit. Also, how technology is changing the way I think.
Is the BBC’s Today programme scared of Rupert Murdoch?
- 15 April 2011
- 34 comments
Curious silence over Hugh Grant’s scoop.
UK Politics
Ethical dimensions of an interventionist foreign policy
- 24 March 2011
- 30 comments
A fine essay by John Stuart Mill, first published in 1859, offers keen insight into the thinking behind the west’s UN-backed air strikes on Libya today.
