The best books of 2025 so far
From urgent new fiction to the inside story of Keir Starmer’s Labour, the New Statesman picks the season’s essential reading.
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Keir Starmer’s opportunity in crisis
Donald Trump’s tariffs give the Prime Minister the political space to re-examine his government’s fiscal rules and Britain’s relationship…
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This England: Allow the bearer to pass…
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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The rebirth of Liberal England
Ed Davey and the Lib Dems can “replace the Conservatives” in their Blue Wall heartlands.
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Letter of the week: Labour’s true north
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Subscriber of the week: Roger Cunningham
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Adriana Marais Q&A: “As a child, I imagined myself as an Egyptian queen or a Viking”
The theoretical physicist on meeting Nelson Mandela and living in China for six months.
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Letter of the week: Debasing the database
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Subscriber of the week: Kevin Hanson
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