Uncovering the facts of the Scottish clearances
An entire peasant class was removed to make way for sheep. But this was not confined to the Highlands…
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How Brexit trapped Britain
How art schools created British pop music
From Roxy Music to Florence and the Machine, a new book chronicles the long, fertile and symbiotic relationship between…
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Why it’s vital to switch that podcast off occasionally and let yourself get bored
It’s only when thoughts are allowed to wander that they become interesting.
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America explained: Douglas Kennedy’s strangely mesmerising new novel
The Great Wide Open reads like an old friend recounting a tale over dinner.
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When writers revolt
The events behind the short-lived writers’ revolution in Germany in 1918.
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Are women biologically adapted for infidelity?
Whatever else we think of them, women who reject monogamy are brave.
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Slaughterhouse Prayer: John King’s new novel of working-class vegan vigilantism
The author of The Football Factory charts the tribulations of a lonely, middle-aged animal rights militant.
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SAS: Who Dares Wins suggests that modern men can fight, shout – and have a good cry too
Getting men to admit vulnerability is difficult, so if part of the answer is to have trained killers talking about…
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Too many Tchaikovskys: The Queen of Spades at the Royal Opera House leaves you cold
It is inconceivable that anyone unfamiliar with the work could have the slightest idea what is going on.
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How the Conservatives could still oust Theresa May as Prime Minister
Her appalling conduct of the negotiations prove she is unequal to the task of leading the country and there is no…
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Addiction drama Beautiful Boy is admirably frustrating, repetitive and inconclusive
Plus: Hale County This Morning, This Evening.
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Marcelo Bielsa: football’s philosopher king
How the Argentinian has transformed Leeds United’s fortunes.
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Why Zoë Ball is a natural fit for the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show
Ball may be manic, but she’s inherently relaxed.
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Les Misérables: this epic of the have-nots is pretty dire
Plus: Revolution in Ruins: The Hugo Chavez Story.
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Why the left should champion Brexit
The EU’s institutions are an innate obstacle to building a socialist economy.
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January is too dull to be dry. I’ll survive it like the Scots do – with plenty of warming whisky
The birthday of the 18th-century Scottish poet Robert Burns is a fine excuse to blend good Scotch, strong words…
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The dangerous consequences of Trump’s shutdown
As the country is held hostage by an intransigent president, federal government workers have been forced to resort to food banks.
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How Bros chipped away at fame with a butter knife and said “timber” on a very big tree
Yet what was it all for? Most people can only name one Bros song.
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I still remember staring into my first pint of London Pride as if I had found the Land of Oz
Could such nectar be? I had asked myself. Until then my life in beer had been the wasteland of…
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What the left can learn from Australian Labor
By combining radical economics with patriotism, the party has made itself the favourite to win this May’s general election.
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Commons Confidential: Chuka spies 50 Labour deselections
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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In a fitting start to the New Year, May’s NHS Ten-Year Plan is full of unrealistic resolutions
The ring-fenced £22.5bn over five years is less than the service needs simply to stand still, let alone make up…
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Letter of the week: Britain’s constitutional crisis
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced…
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First Thoughts: Why lefties should be raising their glasses to Donald Trump
America is undeniably becoming weaker under Trump’s presidency – isn’t that what we’ve always wanted?
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Why Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk – yes, that’s his real name – reminds me of my late wife Margaret
He is one of nature’s prefects. It’s hard to imagine him as young and daft and foolish, doing really…
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Sue Perkins Q&A: “I hope it’s obvious that I don’t own an oil portrait of myself“
The broadcaster talks getting more dogs, October 1988, and the B-word.
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Fyre: a dread-inducing documentary of a festival gone wrong
Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it does.
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No one has a foolproof plan to prevent no deal and nobody knows whose gamble will pay off
They can’t all be right. Someone in this queue is an idiot. But who?
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Millennial mysticism: why contemporary poets are turning to the occult
Spells: 21st-Century Occult Poetry argues that poems are spells.
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Leader: The epic failure of Theresa May
The Prime Minister devoted the entire machinery of government to the task of Brexit – and still endured a…
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