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Luisa, a 40-year-old nanny, photographed by Lina Bertucci.

One Hyde Park. Photograph: Getty Images

Natalie Portman as "yet another crazy lesbian" in Black Swan.

David Cameron and Iain Duncan Smith visiting A4e in 2011. Photograph: Getty Imag

The battle on aid is not won: NGOs shouldn't be soft on Cameron

By Richard Darlington - 30 April 15:58

If a law enshrining the 0.7 per cent aid target isn't in the Queen's Speech, development...
Clegg was for cuts to the NHS and aid before he was against them

By George Eaton - 30 April 14:28

The Liberal Democrat leader has conveniently forgotten his opposition to ring-fencing in 2010...
Miliband admits Labour would borrow more - now he needs to make the argument

By George Eaton - 30 April 11:03

The Labour leader should explain why borrowing for growth is the economically responsible...
Farage blunders as he calls for a "two tier flat tax"

By George Eaton - 30 April 8:39

The UKIP surge continues, but don't ask its leader for a coherent tax policy.
Are UKIP a lost Tory tribe or masked villains? Cameron needs to decide

By Rafael Behr - 29 April 16:41

The Conservatives are caught between advertising their cultural affinity with UKIP and...
Miliband can't keep dodging the borrowing question

By George Eaton - 29 April 14:02

The Labour leader's World At One interview showed why he should make the explicit case for a...
Cutting the NHS to fund defence is bad politics and bad policy

By George Eaton - 29 April 9:45

Raiding £500m from the health and schools budgets to fund defence might please Tory MPs but the...
Obama amuses us again, but why can't British politicians do humour?

By Kiran Moodley - 29 April 11:45

The US president's star turn at the White House Correspondents' Dinner is a reminder of how far...
Miliband unveils alternative Queen's Speech

By George Eaton - 29 April 8:25

The Labour leader announces six economic bills that the party would introduce were it in power...
David Cameron said "we are all Thatcherites now". Apart from him, it would seem

By Caroline Crampton - 28 April 10:39

The PM contradicts himself - is he a Thatcherite or not?

Need to Know

Introducing Mental Health Week
Lifestyle | By Caroline Crampton
A week exploring mental health issues.
Iain Duncan Smith can't avoid the blame for the Universal Credit failures
Politics | By Alex Hern
Hearing only what you want to hear.
Jason Collins: “I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay."
Lifestyle | By Paolo Bandini
The sporting world is ready to hear what he has to say.
The Land of the Free: Getting your money's worth from free to play games
Culture | By Phil Hartup
Why does it work?
Weddings: a feminist survival guide
Blogs | By Rhiannon and Holly
From "giving away" to gifts to nuptial fashions, Rhiannon and Holly have ten tips for...

Books

New digs for the Paris Review and Gary Shteyngart's sexual absence

By Critic - 30 April

Book news.
How could so much money produce something so flaccid?

By Fred Crawley - 28 April

How could so much money produce something so flaccid?
New Editor wanted at Granta and Charles Moore’s lavish book launch

By Critic - 25 April

Book news.
Reviewed: The British Dream by David Goodhart

By Jon Cruddas - 25 April

Comings and goings.
Reviewed: Europe - the Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present by Brendan Simms

By Norman Stone - 25 April

Neighbourhood watch.
Reviewed: Saul Bellow’s Heart - a Son’s Memoir by Greg Bellow

By Leo Robson - 25 April

Separation anxiety.

Business

Margaret Hodge shrugs off “tax prat" line

By economia - 30 April

Interview with the PAC chairman.
Luxembourg is about to shed its reputation as one of the EU’s largest tax havens

By Andrew Amoils - 30 April

Cracks to international pressure.
With a thirty-year bond yield, Apple enters corporate adulthood

By Alex Hern - 30 April

Take off the pullover and put on a suit and tie – you aren't a
Hacked Off needs to know when to stop fighting

By Dominic Ponsford - 30 April

In danger of plucking defeat out of the jaws of victory.
Unemployment up and inflation down in the eurozone

By Alex Hern - 30 April

ECB rate cuts expected
There's a villain to the gold crash story

By Spears magazine - 30 April

The reason gold fell so far.

Media

"Instagram act" under fire for treatment of copyrighted works

By Alex Hern - 29 April

Is the Government handing your photos to media giants?
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

Interviews

Julian Barnes: “I do believe in grudge-bearing”

By Soumya Bhattacharya - 25 April

In a rare interview, the novelist Julian Barnes talks about
Mohsin Hamid: "I think the personal is political and the political is personal"

By Sophie Elmhirst - 12 April

The Books Interview.
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.

Games

The Land of the Free: Getting your money's worth from free to play games

By Phil Hartup - 30 April

More and more games are setting their stall out for free right
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

Film

Reviewed: The Look of Love

By Ryan Gilbey - 26 April

Mags to riches.
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.

Sci-tech

The "snooper's charter" showed just what the Government is capable of

By Dr Richard Clayton - 30 April

The proposed "Filter" programme would have been a vast step up in
Would you dare go on a one-way mission to Mars?

By Laurie Penny - 30 April

Would you sign up for a perilous journey, knowing that you’ve got
"Instagram act" under fire for treatment of copyrighted works

By Alex Hern - 29 April

Is the Government handing your photos to media giants?
Happy Ed Balls day, one and all

By Caroline Crampton - 28 April

We just can't leave that infamous tweet alone.
A sexist and degrading form of cyber-bullying in disguise

By Rosaleen Fenton - 27 April

A new trend of "Spotted" Facebook pages is allowing people space
Wikipedia's segregating women – just like everyone else

By Sarah Ditum - 26 April

How many brilliant writers will be sorted away entirely, never

Economics

Unemployment up and inflation down in the eurozone

By Alex Hern - 30 April

ECB rate cuts expected
Bank of England mulls pay rise for its court

By Alex Hern - 30 April

"Just" £15,000 for three days work a month.
Foreign exchange platform puts the brakes on high-frequency traders

By Alex Hern - 29 April

EBS has changed its rules to discourage algobots.
Why Japan needs Abenomics and Bitcoin faces a lost century

By Alex Hern - 26 April

What do Japan's "lost decade" and the intractable problem facing
GDP may have risen, but the poorest fifth still lose out on £2,000 a year because of rising inequality

By Annie Quick - 26 April

What would Britain be like if the income distribution was the
How the Taliban is having a chilling effect on the Pakistani election

By Samira Shackle - 25 April

As the country gears up for its first ever democratic transition

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

When the NS met Malcolm X

By Brian Glanville - 29 April

12 June 1964.
Owner of collapsed factory caught at Bangladesh-India border

By Alex Hern - 29 April

Sohel Rana arrested trying to flee the country.
Obama at the White House Correspondents' Dinner: "I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist I used to be"

By Caroline Crampton - 28 April

The President zings it all over the place.
After a decade of Darfur it’s time to stop appeasing Sudan’s criminal cabal

By Glenys Kinnock - 27 April

The number of victims continues to rise.
Why is Britain rolling out the red carpet for the UAE's Sheikh Khalifa?

By Donald Campbell - 27 April

Three British citizens continue to be held under appalling
Child abuse: can India afford to remain in denial?

By Priya Virmani - 25 April

Traditional notions of the Indian family allow child abuse to

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