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Across history, birds have bewitched poets and scientists alike.

The idea of tabling an amendment to the Tory EU bill.

Playboy bunnies in 2011, before the launch of the new Playboy Club in Mayfair

Why the Tories should avoid echoing Gove's attacks on Miliband

By George Eaton - 31 May 9:12

Throwing rhetorical jibes at the Labour leader is a crude displacement activity that will do...
In defence of Blairite public sector targets

By Sonia Sodha - 30 May 14:14

If Labour is to build truly excellent public services, it must re-embrace managerialism and...
The Tories shouldn't assume that Miliband's unpopularity will save them

By George Eaton - 30 May 18:41

In 1979, the Tories won despite Jim Callaghan's lead over Margaret Thatcher. Cameron's lead...
Is Osborne about to abolish the culture department?

By George Eaton - 30 May 11:51

Speculation grows that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport could be abolished in the...
Grant Shapps rebuked by UK Statistics Authority for misrepresenting benefit figures

By George Eaton - 30 May 9:14

Yet another Conservative politician is caught making it up.
There is a Conservative case for overseas aid. We should make it

By George Freeman - 29 May 14:47

Our aid commitment, properly targeted, is first and foremost about our own security and...
If we’re past the worst, then no one thought to tell consumers

By Dominic White and Richard Mylles - 29 May 16:06

British households have become more, not less, concerned over the last five years.
Hammond, Cable and May: the ministers who could resign over cuts

By George Eaton - 29 May 13:41

If Osborne refuses to give way in the Spending Review, cabinet ministers may choose to walk out...
Why small businesses must be at the centre of Labour's economic strategy

By Dan Holden - 29 May 11:24

By promoting balanced growth and increasing employment, small businesses exemplify the...
Why you haven't heard of the five most important (only) pro-European movements

By Jonn Elledge - 29 May 10:21

They punch… well, they pretty much punch their weight.

Need to Know

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From Polonius to American Pie, there's an aphorism out there for everyone
Culture | By Bim Adewunmi
Popular culture is bursting with handy tips.
Will building houses solve Britain's economy?
| By Alex Hern
No, probably not. But we should do it anyway.
Beware the undertow on the Jersey Shore
Politics | By Nicky Woolf
Chris Christie's cosy relationship with Obama could bite him come 2016.
Evening Wrap: today's top business stories
Business | By New Statesman

Media

The New Statesman's inbox of delights

By Sophie Elmhirst - 24 May

Sophie Elmhirst explores our letters page.
Will there still be a New Statesman in 2113?

By Helen Lewis - 17 May

The signs are good - the printing press has been good enough for
Imagine if a government had solved everything it could: would hacks back off?

By Ed Smith - 16 May

Ed Smith's "Left Field" column.
Inside Russia Today: counterweight to the mainstream media, or Putin's mouthpiece?

By Oliver Bullough - 10 May

Up to 2.5m Britons watch the Kremlin-funded TV channel, which is
Hold the front page! We need free media not an Order of Mates

By John Pilger - 08 May

In Australia, hard-won rights are being buried beneath corporate
The BBC’s real bias, journalists’ role in the measles epidemic, and a modest proposal about tax

By Peter Wilby - 02 May

Peter Wilby's "First Thoughts" column.

Business

Evening Wrap: today's top business stories

By New Statesman - 30 May

News Stories from around the web.
Berkshire Hathaway’s power unit agrees to buy NV Energy for $5.6bn

By - 30 May

NV Energy currently serves about 1.3 million electric and natural
China’s Shuanghui International to acquire Smithfield Foods for $4.7bn

By New Statesman - 30 May

The deal, which would be the largest Chinese purchase, has raised
Morning Wrap: today's top business stories

By New Statesman - 30 May

News from around the web.
Evening Wrap: today's top business stories

By New Statesman - 29 May

News stories from around the web.
Citigroup settles $3.5bn mortgage securities lawsuit

By - 29 May

The mortgage-fraud lawsuits filed by the agency against other

Books

Ignore all The Great Gatsby hype, and read Fitzgerald’s wonderful essays instead

By Ed Smith - 23 May

The prose shines more brightly than any party on Long Island.
What we learn when we read Italo Calvino’s letters

By Michael Wood - 10 May

The life and death of the author.
Reviewed: She Left Me the Gun - My Mother’s Life Before Me by Emma Brockes

By Claire Lowdon - 25 April

Tangled roots.
Mohsin Hamid: "I think the personal is political and the political is personal"

By Sophie Elmhirst - 12 April

The Books Interview.
His master’s voice

By Jonathan Lethem - 27 March

A tribute to the great American novelist Philip Roth at 80.
Reviewed: The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev by Simon Morrison

By Amanda Foreman - 21 March

The lonely fate of the great composer's wife.

Interviews

Philip Hammond: The rise of the quiet man

By Andrew Gimson - 29 May

Unquestionably competent, but “a cold fish”, Philip Hammond is
Sarah Wollaston: Doctor Sharp Eyes

By George Eaton - 23 May

An MP David Cameron should find space for in his magic circle.
Brian Eno: “How can Alastair Campbell have a TV career?”

By Kate Mossman - 16 May

From Roxy Music to Coldplay - the many faces of Brian Eno.
Isabel Allende: "I have lived the horror of drugs"

By Jonathan Derbyshire - 02 May

The Books Interview.
Julian Barnes: “I do believe in grudge-bearing”

By Soumya Bhattacharya - 25 April

In a rare interview, the novelist Julian Barnes talks about
“If Ed Miliband is seduced by the Blairites, he’ll be consigned to the dustbin of history”

By George Eaton - 24 April

George Eaton interviews Len McCluskey.

Games

11 things we learned from this year's Premier League

By Hunter Davies - 16 May

Hunter Davies' "The Fan" column.
The Fan

By Hunter Davies - 09 May

Hunter Davies' "The Fan" column.
Thank God for Rio

By Hunter Davies - 09 April

Hunter Davies' "The Fan" column.
Personally, I blame Fergie

By Hunter Davies - 21 March

Hunter Davies' "The Fan" column.

Film

Why women’s bodies can’t do anything right

By Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett - 21 May

Enviable curves v skinny self-control.
Soul deep: Liam Hayes and Plush

By Yo Zushi - 19 April

The musician talks to Yo Zushi about writing songs for Roman
The Oscar Pistorius case: history written on a woman’s body

By Hedley Twidle - 07 March

The Oscar Pistorius affair has exposed the fragility of South
Reviewed: Steel - A Century of Steelmaking on Film

By Charlotte Simmonds - 07 February

The BFI screens rarely-seen films from the great era of British
Watch: the trailer for Alan Moore’s “Jimmy’s End"

By Charlotte Simmonds - 20 November

What the only film approved by the godfather of graphic novels
Framed Film Festival brings innovative children's cinema to London

By Kamila Kocialkowska - 15 November

The Barbican's Framed Film Festival has an ambitious remit.

Sci-tech

Hope is a thing with feathers

By Ruth Padel - 30 May

Birds are all around us. They appear and disappear; they go
Leader: The silence of the bees

By New Statesman - 30 May

We should fight for the honeybee's survival.
Are you ready for the era of Big Data?

By Steven Poole - 29 May

Business agrees with governments — the more personal information
The tree of secrets, shadows and scents

By John Burnside - 26 March

In praise of the magnolia.
Generation X-rated owns the net

By Rafael Behr - 21 March

Never has it been so easy for young children to watch violent
Digital elite: A bleak vision of the future

By Sophie Elmhirst - 14 March

Sophie Elmhirst meets Jaron Lanier.

Economics

Eton’s tower block pupils, hoarding disorders and eating pies on the NHS

By Peter Wilby - 23 May

Peter Wilby's "First Thoughts" column.
Creative destruction: our economic crisis was wholly predictable

By Robert Skidelsky - 17 May

Keynes, Hobson, Marx - and the crisis of capitalism.
Bitcoin lovers are lying to themselves - cash has never been king

By Felix Martin - 16 May

Felix Martin's "Real Money" column.
Keeping my Freedom Pass, blowing things up from inside and the invisible crime wave

By Peter Wilby - 01 May

Peter Wilby's "First Thoughts" column.
Five years after the greatest financial crash in history, the banks are still creating chaos

By Felix Martin - 09 April

Felix Martin's "Real Money" column.
The looting of bank deposits, a whiff of regulation and self-hating Mail readers

By Peter Wilby - 27 March

Peter Wilby's "First Thoughts" column.

Television

All white on the night

By David Herman - 30 May

What do Doctor Who, Sherlock and the team captains of Have I Got
What’s the point of BBC4?

By David Herman - 15 May

When the channel started in 2002, it was branded as “a place to
Reviewed: A History of Syria with Dan Snow

By Rachel Cooke - 21 March

In the air tonight.
Reviewed: Baroque Spring

By Antonia Quirke - 21 March

Death by chocolate.
Reviewed: Assorted programmes on Radio 4 and Radio 3

By Antonia Quirke - 28 February

Listening on a loop.
Reviewed: Murder on the Victorian Railway and The Railway: Keeping Britain on Track

By Rachel Cooke - 28 February

Stations of the cross.

World affairs

Leon Wieseltier: “I don’t believe that civility or tenderness is a primary intellectual virtue”

By Philip Maughan - 30 May

An interview with New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier,
The Last Train to Zona Verde by Paul Theroux: How not to write about Africa

By Hedley Twidle - 30 May

A decade after his last African travelogue, Dark Star Safari,
“Ask anyone who has blood in them to help us”

By Julie Bindel - 30 May

Fleeing Syria does not always protect women from sexual violence
Beware the undertow on the Jersey Shore

By Nicky Woolf - 30 May

Governor Chris Christie's cosy relationship with Obama could turn
The Belgrade train

By Fiona Sampson - 30 May

A journey to the troubled heart of the Balkans.
Wu Ming: A band of militant storytellers

By Celluloid Liberation Front - 29 May

The Celluloid Liberation Front speak to the Italian literary

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