Leader: A new England
Liberals have an understandable tendency to bemoan what is wrong with their country, but Gareth Southgate’s England is a…
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Apple vs Facebook
As water scarcity intensifies, so does the battle for resources in the world’s drought-hit regions
From Ethiopia to Ukraine to India, the fight for control over water management systems is sparking conflict.
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I’ve shed my teenage atheism and can see the appeal of Catholicism – but not of the Catholic Church
I fail to understand how Catholics can maintain an active relationship with the Church after its failure to apologise for unfathomable…
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I fail to understand how Catholics can maintain an active relationship with the Church after its failure to apologise for unfathomable…
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Some on the left reject patriotism and veneration – but these are bone-deep human urges
The pedestal that the country has given the England football squad is not only understandable, but entirely justified.
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From Ethiopia to Ukraine to India, the fight for control over water management systems is sparking conflict.
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Why GCSEs should be abolished
Internal assessment by teachers worked perfectly well last year – so let’s keep that system and call it a…
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Roy Hattersley’s Diary: A perfect question for Boris Johnson, cricket’s mysteries, and reading the Telegraph in lockdown
Labour’s prospects are improving because Boris Johnson is changing from political asset to electoral liability.
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A modern nation needs to create an optimistic account of what kind of place it can be
In marriage, similar to sport, we must always aspire to be the best version of ourselves.
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In Gareth Southgate’s England, you don’t have to choose between diversity and tradition
The key to understanding Southgate’s “version” of Englishness is to accept that he rejects binaries and false oppositions.
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After Sarah Everard: What the case revealed about violence against women
The guilty plea of Everard’s murderer was welcome. But we have also learned much about the failures in our policing, politics…
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France’s silent majority: How a political class was left behind
Low turnout in the June regional elections shows both Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen have failed to attract the politically homeless.
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Apple vs Facebook: how the war between the Silicon Valley giants is changing tech
The growing divisions between Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook could transform our relationship with technology.
By After Sarah Everard: What the case revealed about violence against women
The guilty plea of Everard’s murderer was welcome. But we have also learned much about the failures in our policing, politics…
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When writers drink
A new book explores the role of alcohol in the lives of eleven literary figures.
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Dispatches from the crisis generation
Two young novelists capture what it means to come of age in a time of political upheaval
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A new book explores the role of alcohol in the lives of eleven literary figures.
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How the bicycle set women free
The populous and multifarious history of women’s cycling
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Reviewed in short: New books by Gottfried Leibbrandt and Natasha de Terán, Karl Deisseroth, Lionel Shriver and Felice Fallon
The Pay Off by Leibbrandt and de Terán, Connections: A Story of Human Feeling by Deisseroth, Should We Stay or Should…
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The NS Poem: Dear Tor
A new poem by Yvonne Reddick.
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When statues fall
What our long history of toppling monuments tells us about our divisive relationship with the past
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The mysterious and unsettling pictures of Paula Rego
A new retrospective at Tate Britain reveals the paradox at the heart of her art: here is a narrative…
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The Kindness Experiment is a portrait of a close-knit community
“I’m trying to generate more kindness,” presenter Ella Scotland Waters tells a passer-by on the streets of Bristol.
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Synthetic orgasms and breast milk slapstick: Netflix’s Sex/Life
Billed as comedy drama, this explicit series is funny for all the wrong reasons.
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Filippo Meneghetti’s Two of Us is an intimate portrait of late-in-life love
This story of 70-something lesbians protests against a society dominated by youth.
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Anthony Horowitz: “I couldn’t possibly support the Conservative Party now – it makes me feel queasy”
The bestselling novelist on upending genre fiction, why writers must be hopeful and his shift to the left.
By The mysterious and unsettling pictures of Paula Rego
A new retrospective at Tate Britain reveals the paradox at the heart of her art: here is a narrative…
By The Kindness Experiment is a portrait of a close-knit community
“I’m trying to generate more kindness,” presenter Ella Scotland Waters tells a passer-by on the streets of Bristol.
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Subscriber of the week: David Hume
Email ellys.woodhouse@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be the New Statesman's Subscriber of the Week.
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Wine is born from hardship – and few have had as much to overcome as port
Today, port has lost some of its cachet, but Douro growers have responded by producing excellent dry reds.
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My sporting summer had all too short a lease, which is why I want my heroes to go on and on
We’re living in an age where some professional sports lives are freakishly extended – each game becoming an automatic exercise…
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As plans for our family holiday crumble, our only option is a staycation in the garden
The disappointment – even after this year of disappointments – was sharp and piercing. We are all tired of putting…
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This England: Peopleton’s pride
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s Richard II, refers to the whole of Britain…
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A patient comes into the surgery with two concerns – a lump on his arm and life after 19 July
Some people are very clear that “freedom day” means the end of mask-wearing, but my patient is far from unusual…
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Georgia Pritchett Q&A: “Reality TV has led to catastrophe“
The Succession writer and producer on shunning reality TV, looking up to Stacey Abrams, and why we’re all doomed (in a good way).
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First Thoughts: The real threat to free speech, eating insects, and why you should ask a friend out to dinner
What does Gavin Williamson, the free speech champion, think of the law designed to curtail the right to peaceful…
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Shabana Mahmood MP on Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner and making Labour electable again
The Labour Party’s newly appointed national campaign coordinator discusses her plan for winning elections.
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Commons Confidential: Hancock: the director’s cut
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The England team have exposed the lie of the government’s culture war
Boris Johnson and his cabinet present race and class as binary opposites but England’s footballers are as committed to…
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Letter of the week: Remembering Ruskin
Email letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Liberals have an understandable tendency to bemoan what is wrong with their country, but Gareth Southgate’s England is a…
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