The Staggers

The New Statesman’s rolling politics blog

List of MPs’ endorsements of the Labour leadership candidates
02 June 2015
Defeated parliamentary candidates call on Labour MPs to back Ben Bradshaw
02 June 2015
Cultural Capital

The latest on books and the arts

Culture vultures: which species have changed the way we portray the natural world in film and literature?
01 June 2015
The art of rapprochement: what the Havana Biennale reveals about thawing Cuba-US relations
01 June 2015
Media Mole

Digging up stories

"Don't know where he got that idea from": Jim Murphy's top Twitter Blatter banter
02 June 2015
Watch: Someone has created a film trailer for "Forgetting Ed Miliband"
01 June 2015
Voices

Views from elsewhere

Will Ireland make history and vote for same sex marriage?
20 May 2015
Yes, the government has the ability to restrict our ability to see porn online. But would it ever dare to?
06 April 2015
Mehdi Hasan

A polemical take on politics, economics and foreign affairs

Mehdi Hasan: How Islamic is Islamic State?
10 March 2015
Mehdi Hasan: Five questions that trouble Ed Miliband’s many disillusioned supporters
12 February 2015
Helen Lewis

News and views about writing, eating, gaming and watching

Do you miss the Lib Dems yet? Don't worry, you will
13 May 2015
An A-Z of the election campaign
07 May 2015
Glosswitch

A feminist take on parenting and politics

Why do we assume there is an evil mother behind every violent man?
27 May 2015
The feminist history of surrogacy: should pregnancy give a woman rights over a baby?
22 May 2015
Killing Time

Phil Hartup on videogames

Grim Fandango and hitting the nostalgia brick wall
27 May 2015
Grand Theft Auto Online: The Completely Sublime and the Slightly Ridiculous
18 May 2015
Anoosh Chakelian

Views, news and features on culture and politics

Ex-Cabinet Secretary Gus O'Donnell blames party leaders for lack of women at the 2010 coalition negotiations
02 June 2015
Who are the MPs running to be Labour's next leader?
29 May 2015
June Eric-Udorie

Pop culture to politics: musings of a teenager

2015 was the first election I cared about. It didn't end well
15 May 2015
Where are the ethnic minority women in politics?
29 April 2015
Sarah Ditum

Politics for tired people

Even as an adult, reading Judy Blume feels like being admitted into a secret club
01 June 2015
It’s time to stop defending the rape scenes in Game of Thrones
19 May 2015
Ian Leslie

News about ideas, ideas about news

Casting your vote may be dull – but the way it adds up is magic
07 May 2015
Cameron looks like a man who has lost his desire for the job - in politics as in sport, that's lethal
04 April 2015
Frances Robinson

Everything you want to know about Europe but were afraid to ask

An EU explainer for the easily bored: how much influence does the UK really have in Europe?
25 March 2015
An EU explainer for the easily bored: the cost to the UK
18 March 2015
Michael Brooks

Here comes the science bit

From sticky feet to a sticky situation: what humans can learn from geckos
28 May 2015
EU membership is crucial to Britain’s science excellence
21 May 2015
Frances Ryan

Thoughts and reports on inequality, from disability to gender

Under austerity, deprivation in the UK is becoming normalised. Don’t vote for any more of it
06 May 2015
The Disability Audit: the eight coalition policies that have hit disabled people
29 April 2015
Musa Okwonga

A little bit of everything. Culture, race, sport, and more

Why the UK media needs more writers of colour
24 March 2015
I care deeply about diversity in the arts, but I can’t help sympathising with James Blunt
20 January 2015
Jamie Maxwell

Scotland and the break-up of Britain in 2014

Union blues: Was the referendum a transformative moment for Scottish politics?
26 February 2015
Scottish Labour abandoned social democracy to the SNP – and now it's paying the price
11 February 2015
Caroline Crampton

Notes on politics, arts and entertainment

Król Roger’s music is beautiful – but overwhelmed by constant symbolism
21 May 2015
How much does it cost to stand as an MP?
20 April 2015
Power Trip

Margaret Corvid on desire, change and culture

Still deciding who to vote for? Consider sex workers’ rights
07 May 2015
Moving on from the “happy hooker”: why I love my job as a sex worker
24 April 2015
Juliet Jacques

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

A journey into the dark heart of sport: Anna Krien's "Night Games"
22 January 2015
Perish the thought: trying to impress the philosophy tutor
25 September 2014
Elizabeth Minkel

Exploring the shifting dynamics of fan culture

From Nate Silver to #Milifans: welcome to the age of political fandom
23 April 2015
How the Hugo Awards got very own GamerGate
16 April 2015
Myriam Francois-Cerrah

France, postcoloniality and all things south

To talk about race, we need to talk about the problem with “whiteness”
28 April 2015
Why are pregnant women being detained in Yarl’s Wood?
31 March 2015
Jonn Elledge

Trying to understand why nothing bloody works

Ten years later, the new Doctor Who is still here
26 March 2015
The Tories want to give away houses to make sure we have enough houses
23 March 2015
Samira Shackle

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

What it’s like to be a Somali refugee in Kenya
22 May 2015
Islamic State faces a complex web of militant groups and violence in Pakistan
23 April 2015
Lez Miserable

Eleanor Margolis: sapphic cynic at large

My mum is the best worst colleague I’ve ever had
02 June 2015
This was the year Eurovision became more about the politics than the songs
26 May 2015
Richard Morris

Thoughts on the Lib Dems, and how political spin works

Politics is everyone's business: in defence of business leaders who reveal their party allegiance
01 May 2015
Lib Dems must resist succumbing to the voting system by only supporting the party with most seats
24 April 2015