Tom Gatti

1 month ago | newstatesman.com | Tom Gatti

The New Statesman staff are sometimes drawn to the windows of our first-floor office in Hatton Garden by events unfolding outside: a purple Lamborghini pulling up to the jeweller’s next door, a music video being filmed on phones in the middle of the road, groups of men striking deals or squaring up to each other while security guards coolly observe. I’m always aware, though, that what we’re looking at are Dickens’s streets.

2 months ago | newstatesman.com | Tom Gatti

A couple of weeks after watching the TV drama Adolescence, I found myself sitting down for a family  viewing of Stand by Me – a 1986 coming-of-age movie that I have seen many times but had not revisited for at least two decades. The film, directed by Rob Reiner and based on a Stephen King novella, follows 12-year-old Gordie Lachance (Wil Wheaton) and his three friends in a hot 1959 summer in small-town Oregon, as they go on a quest to find the body of a missing local kid.

Jan 20, 2025 | newstatesman.com | Tom Gatti

In this episode of Culture from the New Statesman, Tom Gatti meets authors Madeleine Davis and Anastasia Berg, who have both written on the changing attitudes to child-rearing, to explore the reasons behind these changes. They discuss why financial, social and romantic circumstances are leading fewer people to have children, and what governments and institutions can or should do to address the issue. Subscribers to the New Statesman can listen ad-free in our app. Download it on iOS or Android.

Dec 9, 2024 | afr.com | Tom Gatti

Twenty years ago – before the iPhone, before Spotify, when Tony Blair was in Downing Street, Taylor Swift was in Nashville and TikTok was the noise made by a mechanical time-telling device – a tradition began among my friends. Every December we would each make a mix of our songs of the year – old and new, borrowed and blue – and burn a dozen CDs to be brought to a Christmas party at my flat, where they’d be exchanged along with the customary glad tidings, good cheer and over-mulled wine.

Dec 4, 2024 | newstatesman.com | Tom Gatti

Twenty years ago – before the iPhone, before Spotify, when Tony Blair was in Downing Street, Taylor Swift was in Nashville and TikTok was the noise made by a mechanical time-telling device – a tradition began among my friends. Every December we would each make a mix of our songs of the year – old and new, borrowed and blue – and burn a dozen CDs to be brought to a Christmas party at my flat, where they’d be exchanged along with the customary glad tidings, good cheer and over-mulled wine.