Miliband is remaking Labour as a true people's party | There's no sexism in gaming | Laurie Penny: "Why should I subsidise other people’s weird lifestyle choices?

Weekly Online Newsletter 09 July 2013 HOME EDITOR'S CHOICE ECONOMICS POLITICS CULTURE BLOGS JOBS SUBSCRIBE If you were forwarded this by a colleague please click here to subscribe Editor's Choice Ten must-read blogs Watching Ed Miliband, I had a strange new feeling: I think it's called "hope" . . . and it only got better when I saw Grant Shapps, president of the unofficial second job society, squirming and whimpering on the Daily Politics. By Alex Andreou Miliband is remaking Labour as a true people's party The reforms announced today will enhance Labour's traditional links and lay the foundations for new, open and powerful alliances. By Owen Smith I oppose tax breaks for marriage - why should I subsidise other people's weird lifestyle choices? There's no reason anyone should be herded into an archaic arrangement that does not work for everybody. By Laurie Penny I don't want to die in an attic, but what choice does a member of Generation Rent have? There are too many people and not enough houses, and that the houses that do exist are either unaffordable or occupied by elderly people who, thanks to medical science - and, I should add, through no fault of their own - aren't going anywhere fast. By Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett The zombies of Mayfair Private equity firms and hedge funds with their hidden fees don't just skew markets - they often aren't even very good. So why is your pension probably invested with one? By Nicholas Shaxon There's no sexism in gaming Why don't you just enjoy the fantasy? Games are a special medium, completely separate from our wider culture and any attempt to put them in context is just insulting. By Cara Ellison Daily Mail corrects misleading benefit statistics as DWP prepares for MPs' grilling The paper admits it was wrong to state that 878,000 people on incapacity benefit dropped their claims, rather than face a new medical assessment. By George Eaton Nigerian literature is going from strength to strength Winner of the 2013 Caine Prize for African writing and four nominees all hail from Nigeria. By James Evans Things I Don't Want to Know: a powerful feminist response to Orwell's Why I Write Juliet Jacques on Deborah Levy's new essay. By Juliet Jacques Scottish and British: why Andy Murray brings a fragmenting UK together It is a sign of the health and maturity of civic Scottish nationalism that sport matters so much less to nationhood than it did a generation ago. By Sunder Katwala Promotion £15 tickets for 4 star production 'Address Unknown' at Soho Theatre! A timeless tale of friendship and betrayal. In an era of austerity, recession and rising nationalism, two friends in the 1930s are torn apart, the Nazi regime infiltrating their friendship and families to devastating effect. An exciting and provocative hour of theatre about loyalty and betrayal, based on the bestselling book by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor. Written as an anti-fascist call to arms and banned in 1930s Germany for dramatically exposing the threat of Nazism, Address Unknown is a timely warning of how humanity can fail in the face of extreme ideology. MUST END SAT 27 JULY! Get £15 tickets by quoting promocode "NEWSTATESAU" online www.sohotheatre.com or via the Soho Theatre Box Office: 020 7478 0100 (Full-price tickets normally up to £25) 'Compelling.' **** Time Out 'Perfection.' **** Whatsonstage.com 'Poignant.' **** Evening Standard Terms and conditions: Valid on a reduction on full-price tickets until Sat 27 July. Tickets subject to availability. Sponsored Advertorial   Subscribe Kindly note that if you receive this e-mail your e-mail address is being held by us for the purpose of communicating with you on New Statesman related matters. If you do not wish us to e- mail you, please unsubscribe from this list. New Statesman Limited is a Data Controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998. © New Statesman Ltd. 2013. The above information may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient of this email please destroy it. As Internet communications are not secure please note that the New Statesman does not accept legal responsibility for the content of this email message.