On his centenary, Bauman’s pessimistic utopianism is a lesson for the left – and the Labour Party ...

A long time ago, I ran into Iris Murdoch at a party where the host had unleashed a lethal cocktail on his guests in order to ...

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It is hard to believe that Rachel Cooke has gone. I am not the only New Statesman reader who told themselves they turned ...

roy Parrott’s goal at the death of the World Cup Qualifier against Hungary was enough on its own. Back from London for the ...

This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain – has run in the ...

Studies have repeatedly confirmed that, under laboratory conditions at least, supersize portions result in our eating around a third more calories than if the food had been served in more modest ...

The long run-up to the Budget should have been a blessing, offering Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves respite from their usual ...

What does matter is that one of Trump’s most devoted supporters is drawing a line in Maga world between herself and the ...

Aatami, marvellously wrinkled and leathery, is played by Jorma Tommila, who was 63 in the first film and is, incidently, ...

Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms have jolted Westminster, and some see them as evidence that the right now firmly owns ...