Why Britain matters in Europe
Our strategic alliance with the Baltic states has survived centuries of upheaval. Now the mission is to contain the Russians…
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Our strategic alliance with the Baltic states has survived centuries of upheaval. Now the mission is to contain the Russians…
ByThe Prime Minister is more popular as a leader than progressives would wish – but does he know his…
ByThe SNP is likely to win a resounding victory in the Scottish Parliament elections. How long can London hold…
ByThe master of horror could write, direct and score his own films. So why did he give it all…
ByCorinth’s national aspirations weren’t enough for the Nazis, however. In 1937, 12 years after his death, seven of his…
ByFormer staff accused Bon Appétit of fostering a racist work culture. Now, a new podcast series explains exactly what…
ByAlan Yentob’s film was predictably starry: he favours big guns, mostly male, at whose wisdom he can nod, thus…
ByIt is Hanks’s curiosity, his intentness as he watches and listens, which lends him definition.
ByJoan Didion has died aged 87. In this essay, Leo Robson explored how the chronicler of American counterculture was…
ByAs two new books make clear, we cannot deny the influence of our colonial past on our society. But…
BySpufford’s new novel is a quiet, contemplative book about the imagined future lives of children killed in a German…
ByTwo-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Sampson, Karachi Vice by Shackle, Lullaby Beach by Duffy and Maxwell’s Demon…
ByA poem by Grey Gowrie, the former Conservative cabinet minister, who has died aged 81.
ByAmericans on both sides of the cultural divide are content with the twin risks of the coronavirus era: death and boredom. …
ByAndrew Neil needs GB News to get even with Rupert Murdoch and the Beeb. Nobody else does.
ByThe epidemiologist behind the Covid Symptom Study app reflects on the challenges of marrying real-time science with the priorities…
ByYour weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
ByThe scientist, who has died aged 87, effectively ended a 12,000-year-old geological era when he invented the “Anthropocene”.
ByNone of us GPs and nurses have been thanked so often and so fulsomely.
ByThis column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s Richard II, refers to the whole of Britain –…
ByEmail emily.bootle@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be the New Statesman's Subscriber of the Week.
ByThe psychologist on character building, the myth of the hunter-gatherer, and why we need a four-day week.
ByGlastonbury’s cancellation comes as another blow upon the painful bruise being felt by the whole music industry. Yet the…
ByThis accusation is a problem that the observational, humorous or lifestyle columnist is going to have to run into…
ByI dream of sipping Champagne in Paris. But, while I’m stuck at home and looking at wine even more…
ByA selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced…
ByA majority at the Scottish parliamentary election would give the SNP an unarguable mandate for a second independence referendum,…
ByA new book alleging child sex abuse by a member of the Parisian intellectual elite has caused a sensation in France –…
ByThe biggest political test facing Johnson’s government is to keep the UK together. It is currently failing.
ByTV ratings for the Olympics have steadily fallen, especially among the young – as a crisis of relevance and the issues…
ByThe moment that Brexit appeared advantageous, Ireland became collateral damage in the EU’s need to cover its own vulnerability.
ByMargaret Thatcher and Harold Wilson show the way for a struggling opposition leader: offer a serious argument, not a set…
ByA small but vocal cohort of my SNP colleagues has engaged in performative histrionics redolent of the Salem witch…
ByThe scientist, who has died aged 87, effectively ended a 12,000-year-old geological era when he invented the “Anthropocene”.
ByAndrew Neil needs GB News to get even with Rupert Murdoch and the Beeb. Nobody else does.
BySpufford’s new novel is a quiet, contemplative book about the imagined future lives of children killed in a German…
ByThe epidemiologist behind the Covid Symptom Study app reflects on the challenges of marrying real-time science with the priorities…
ByTwo-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Sampson, Karachi Vice by Shackle, Lullaby Beach by Duffy and Maxwell’s Demon…
ByAs two new books make clear, we cannot deny the influence of our colonial past on our society. But…
ByYour weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
ByA poem by Grey Gowrie, the former Conservative cabinet minister, who has died aged 81.
ByTV ratings for the Olympics have steadily fallen, especially among the young – as a crisis of relevance and the issues…
ByThe moment that Brexit appeared advantageous, Ireland became collateral damage in the EU’s need to cover its own vulnerability.
ByIt is Hanks’s curiosity, his intentness as he watches and listens, which lends him definition.
ByA new book alleging child sex abuse by a member of the Parisian intellectual elite has caused a sensation in France –…
ByAlan Yentob’s film was predictably starry: he favours big guns, mostly male, at whose wisdom he can nod, thus…
ByMargaret Thatcher and Harold Wilson show the way for a struggling opposition leader: offer a serious argument, not a set…
ByFormer staff accused Bon Appétit of fostering a racist work culture. Now, a new podcast series explains exactly what…
ByI dream of sipping Champagne in Paris. But, while I’m stuck at home and looking at wine even more…
ByThis accusation is a problem that the observational, humorous or lifestyle columnist is going to have to run into…
ByGlastonbury’s cancellation comes as another blow upon the painful bruise being felt by the whole music industry. Yet the…
ByThe biggest political test facing Johnson’s government is to keep the UK together. It is currently failing.
ByNone of us GPs and nurses have been thanked so often and so fulsomely.
ByThis column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s Richard II, refers to the whole of Britain –…
ByA selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced…
ByEmail emily.bootle@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be the New Statesman's Subscriber of the Week.
ByThe psychologist on character building, the myth of the hunter-gatherer, and why we need a four-day week.
ByA majority at the Scottish parliamentary election would give the SNP an unarguable mandate for a second independence referendum,…
ByA small but vocal cohort of my SNP colleagues has engaged in performative histrionics redolent of the Salem witch…
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