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Miliband denounces McCluskey over "reprehensible" attack on Blairites

By George Eaton - 24 April 20:20

The Labour leader moves swiftly to condemn the Unite general secretary over his comments to the...
Exclusive: Len McCluskey declares war on shadow cabinet "Blairites"

By George Eaton - 24 April 15:09

Unite general secretary says Miliband will be "defeated" and "cast into the dustbin of history...
There is an alternative: governments can do what markets cannot

By Chuka Umunna - 24 April 15:58

To succeed in age of globalisation, British manufacturers need a government that rejects...
PMQs review: Cameron plays dirty on the NHS

By George Eaton - 24 April 13:14

Miliband accuses the PM of a "disgraceful slur" after he says the Mid-Staffs report was a "...
Dissident threats to McGuinness’s life but Sinn Fein doggedly sticks to political strategy

By Kevin Meagher - 24 April 10:29

The targeting of Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister helps to reinforce his modernising...
Food bank users triple in a year as the cuts bite

By George Eaton - 24 April 8:39

The number of people who received emergency food aid rose to 346,992 in 2012-13, up from 128,...
Last chance to save the NHS in the House of Lords

The Staggers| By Nicola Cutcher - 23 April 16:04

A new raft of privatising measures will be voted on tomorrow.
Miliband makes his first major spending pledge: Labour won't cut the NHS

By George Eaton - 23 April 14:04

A Labour government would not consider "cutting the health service", says Miliband in his...
Why Labour is right to consider a salary insurance scheme

By Graeme Cooke - 23 April 11:57

A welfare system that provides greater support to people when they need it most offers an...
Revealed: why the deficit actually rose today

By George Eaton - 23 April 10:45

Strip out all special factors and total borrowing was £400m higher in 2012-13 than in the...

Need to Know

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A first look at tomorrow's cover.
Is motherhood a kind of slavery?
Lifestyle | By Glosswitch
On pregnancy and autonomy.
UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom can't be misogynist, some of his best friends are women
Blogs | By Alex Hern
QED.
Krugman's uncanny accuracy shows why more eyes should be on Japan
Economics | By Alex Hern
Abenomics is more that just a Japanese story.
Women are well represented by Sci-Fi publishers – but not reviewers
| By Alex Hern
The representation gap grows at every stage in the SF ecosystem.

Books

How Audrey Niffenegger ended up writing a ballet

By Hayley Campbell - 23 April

The author of Time Traveller's Wife speaks to Hayley
Judges for the 15th Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction announced

By - 23 April

Lord Martin Rees to chair the Prize.
Audrey Niffenegger's Raven Girl: the return of the illustrated book?

By Alex Hern - 23 April

Alex Hern finds that sometimes it's better to let someone else
What can we learn from Roald Dahl's The Witches?

By Jemma Crew - 18 April

Thirty years on from the publication of Roald Dahl's The
Granta's Best Young British Novelists - who are they?

By Philip Maughan - 16 April

Penguin-style biographies for the twenty listed writers with
The Hardy Boys of our generation?

By Alex Hern - 14 April

Reviewed: Bad Machinery, by John Allison.

Business

It would be accurate to say that the Co-op has had a bad year

By Douglas Blakey - 24 April

Reflections on today's news.
Boy, that Jill Abramson sounds like a real piece of work, huh?

By Helen Lewis - 24 April

Shock news: female boss of the New York Times is bossy.
The ancient Greeks used quantitative easing

By economia - 24 April

What can they teach us?
Pussy Drinks Ltd pretends not to know why people complained about its adverts

By Martha Gill - 24 April

"They said the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) stated that a
Five questions answered on Barclays’ first quarter profit fall

By Heidi Vella - 24 April

What’s responsible?
Apple's problem? No new products

By New Statesman - 24 April

First profit fall in a decade.

Media

Don't ask, don't tell: Model scouts outside anorexia clinics

By Rhiannon and Holly - 24 April

Eating disorders are still not really regarded as diseases in the
In a spat with Jan Moir, Katherine Jenkins stays classy

By Caroline Crampton - 23 April

The singer responds to Jan Moir’s accusation that she was “
Kostas Vaxevanis: "Greek people only hear about their own country through the foreign press"

By Daniel Trilling - 22 April

The Greek journalist, who was instrumental in the publication of
Britain has risen above patronising portrayals of identity

By Alan White - 19 April

Race, crime and the media: an essay.
“The twots”: Letter from a would-be New Statesman Editor

By Anthony Barnett - 16 April

When Anthony Barnett was turned down for the editorship of the
Giving space to Andrew Wakefield on MMR isn't balance, it's lunacy

By Martin Robbins - 13 April

The Independent should not have run the discredited doctor's

Interviews

Ed Miliband: "The biggest enemy is not enthusiasm for the Tories"

By Rafael Behr - 11 April

Rafael Behr spent the day on the campaign trail with the Labour
Melvyn Bragg and David Hare on culture and progress

By Melvyn Bragg and David Hare - 10 April

“Shame is a revolutionary emotion.”
Lucy Wadham: "Class is this great, open wound that nobody can leave alone"

By Jonathan Derbyshire - 09 April

The Books Interview.
Bach on the farm

By Alexandra Coghlan - 09 April

Alexandra Coghlan talks to John Eliot Gardiner.
James Lovelock: A man for all seasons

By John Gray - 27 March

The guru of Gaia is a maverick environmentalist who supports
Denis Healey: “Thatcher was good-looking and brilliant”

By Rafael Behr - 26 March

Games

The end of the epic: why the success of Bioshock Infinite is bad for gaming

By Phil Hartup - 21 April

Phil Hartup hated the critically acclaimed blockbuster. And he
Reviewed: BioShock Infinite

By Tom Watson - 10 April

Moral maze.
Thank God for Rio

By Hunter Davies - 09 April

Hunter Davies' "The Fan" column.
Saints or sinners? The problem of satire in videogames

By Phil Hartup - 02 April

There's a fine line between what's fair game for mockery and what
Bioshock and racist violence

By Helen Lewis - 21 March

A videogame that dares to address the banality of racist violence
Personally, I blame Fergie

By Hunter Davies - 21 March

Hunter Davies' "The Fan" column.

Film

When punk rock ruled over Ulster

By Philip Maughan - 23 April

Reviewed: Good Vibrations.
Robert Downey Jr: armour-plated

By Ryan Gilbey - 23 April

Reviewed: Iron Man 3.
Reviewed: Me and You

By Ryan Gilbey - 19 April

Bernardo Bertolucci returns after eight years with the
Interview: Liam Hayes and Plush

By Yo Zushi - 19 April

The musician talks to Yo Zushi about writing songs for Roman
Reviewed: The Place Beyond the Pines

By Ryan Gilbey - 10 April

A good gander at Gosling.
The sweet sound of Christopher Walken

By Ryan Gilbey - 10 April

The sweet sound of Christopher Walken in the otherwise terrible "

Sci-tech

Reddit matures, and apologises

By Alex Hern - 23 April

The site's general manager has apologised for its conduct during
YouTube at 8: A journey to the centre of the internet meme

By Jon Hickman - 23 April

Five things we now know.
Kepler mission announces two exoplanets in the habitable "zone"

By Alex Hern - 19 April

The planets are the right temperature and size to support liquid
EU cap-and-trade system left to die by EU parliament

By Alex Hern - 19 April

The ETS is dead, long live climate change.
The Supreme Court case which didn't break the internet

By Alex Hern - 17 April

Do you "copy" a website just by reading it? No, thankfully.
Kobo fights Amazon with the one thing it has: friends

By Alex Hern - 16 April

The Aura HD is a great bit of hardware, but that's not where the

Economics

If you're under 45, you'll see climate change's effects in person

By Alex Hern - 24 April

We're still caught up in a 1980s mindset.
Krugman's uncanny accuracy shows why more eyes should be on Japan

By Alex Hern - 24 April

Abenomics is more that just a Japanese story.
Politics muddies the waters of Scotland and the pound

By Alex Hern - 23 April

It's simple, until it's not.
Revealed: why the deficit actually rose today

By George Eaton - 23 April

Strip out all special factors and total borrowing was £400m
The Treasury select committee is deeply unimpressed by Osborne's Help To Buy scheme

By Helen Lewis - 20 April

The plan to help first-time buyers is "very much a work in
Fitch agency downgrades UK credit rating from AAA to AA+

By Helen Lewis - 20 April

More trouble for "downgraded Chancellor" George Osborne.

Television

Broadchurch recedes into the gloom, but ITV's star shines bright

By Caroline Crampton - 23 April

The channel's handling of Chris Chibnall's brilliant whodunnit
Mad Men: Season 6, Episode 3

By Alice Gribbin - 19 April

Warring speeches and mass complicity.
Friends is gone for good. Could we BE any sadder?

By Bim Adewunmi - 18 April

The creator of Friends, that cultural juggernaut we all
On a cold night in Rotterdam, the familiarity of Dutch "Take Me Out" is comforting

By Bim Adewunmi - 12 April

Television might be considered "low" culture by some, but the
Mad Men: Season 6, Episodes 1 and 2

By Alice Gribbin - 11 April

It's back! Feisty wives, the Don of old and lots of dodgy facial
Beale's about

By Antonia Quirke - 09 April

Beale's about.

World affairs

Australia's Tony Abbott is a man for everyone and no one

By Liam McLaughlin - 23 April

It remains far from clear whether Tony Abbott can win September's
Zuma’s final battle for control of the ANC

By Martin Plaut - 23 April

The power struggle between President Zuma and trade union leader
Chile’s slow thaw: Benny Pollack on the "NO" campaign

By Benny Pollack - 22 April

30 September 1988.
Kostas Vaxevanis: "Greek people only hear about their own country through the foreign press"

By Daniel Trilling - 22 April

The Greek journalist, who was instrumental in the publication of
It is time for Turkey to recognise the historical fact of the Armenian Genocide

By Benjamin Abtan - 20 April

It is now 98 years since 1.5m Armenians were systematically
19 April 1952: Leonard Woolf asks, is the UN still-born?

By Leonard Woolf - 19 April

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