Few institutions illustrate the strain of modern healthcare as clearly as the National Health Service.
12/12/2025
As we await the publication of the National Cancer Plan in early 2026, it’s clear that we are in a crucial period of change for cancer care within the National Health Service.
I bought two massive, cheap clocks in TK Maxx last week. About £12.99 each. They are huge, round and have those plastic fake brass frames. One of the faces has Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night on it and the other, Claude Monet’s Giverny Garden.
11/12/2025
One of my New Statesman colleagues wears a jumper, much admired in the newsroom, that is older than him. It was bought by his father in the mid-1980s, from Marks & Spencer (when the high-street chain sold its clothes under the “St Michael” brand).…
28/11/2025
As we grapple with the ongoing threat of Mpox and the scars of Covid remain raw, there is reason for cautious celebration: we are on the brink of eradicating a brutal disease that has tormented Africa for generations.
11/09/2024
Extending cooperative models of ownership for core community assets can open the path to true decentralisation.
24/04/2024
Dogger Bank, powered by SSE, will become the UK's largest wind farm – and power over six million homes.
09/11/2023
When you take on hope, you take on its opposites and opponents: despair, defeatism, cynicism and pessimism. And, I would argue, optimism. What all these enemies of hope have in common is confidence about what is going to happen, a false certainty…
17/07/2023
Dumpster-diving with Patrick O’Hare, the anthropologist fighting for our right to what people throw away.
30/07/2022
Fifty years after the Limits to Growth report was published, the concept of post-growth remains largely taboo.
29/06/2022
The share of Scotland that is forested has increased from 6 per cent a century ago to around 18 per cent today.
08/04/2022
Reducing the environmental impact of meat is becoming big business. The CEO of Aleph Farm explains why he is betting on lab-grown meat.
01/12/2021
