Leader: Putin must accept he cannot win
Mr Putin sees himself as a great leader who will be remembered alongside the tsars. He must now be…
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Letter of the week: Double standards
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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How the Wolseley lost the battle for its soul
The beloved London restaurant empire has been bought out by Minor International – which has little understanding of its…
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Howard Jacobson’s Diary: Home-front warriors and Francis Bacon’s waning shock value
The spectacle of genuine horror unfolding in Ukraine throws into perspective our more synthetic outrages.
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Noam Chomsky: “We’re approaching the most dangerous point in human history”
The US professor, now 93, on the climate catastrophe and the threat of nuclear war.
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Commons Confidential: Jealous Johnson’s poppy-lopping
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Identity in crisis, understanding England, and the joy of a cherry tree in spring
The question of what England is, and what part it can play in the events unfolding, remains as unresolved…
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Labour could face an election next spring. Keir Starmer needs a big idea, and fast
Inside the party there isn’t enough political courage or excitement. Where’s the relish for the fight?
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The atrocities in Bucha show that remembrance without resolve is empty
“Every year politicians repeat ‘never again’,” Volodymyr Zelensky chided the Bundestag. “And now, we see that these words simply…
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We can congratulate Laura Kuenssberg for her seven years in a near-impossible job
The next political editor of the BBC, whoever it is, would be well advised to turn off the Twitter…
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Could Putin’s great gamble turn Russia into a Chinese vassal state?
The war in Ukraine might well force Moscow to bid for new fossil-fuel trading partners – but Beijing’s geopolitical…
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Why I’m proud to be keeping my name when I get married
According to some traditionalists, my reluctance to change my name signifies a lack of commitment – but women are…
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War at the end of history
Will Putin’s invasion of Ukraine lead to a new world order, or an era of grinding compromise?
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“Russia cannot afford to lose, so we need a kind of a victory”: Sergey Karaganov on what Putin wants
The Kremlin adviser explains how Russia views the war in Ukraine and the fate of liberalism.
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Spring reflection: What tadpoles taught me
When they turn to tiny tailed froglets and scramble into damp grass, we learn something about letting go.
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The forgotten nuclear threat of North Korea
Kim Jong Un has fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years.
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Delia Smith: “I was told I was not sexy enough. It was very hurtful”
The no-nonsense guru of home-cooking has published her first book of philosophy. What took her so long?
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Watergate in the age of Donald Trump
Fifty years ago, the scandal that brought down Richard Nixon revealed flaws in American democracy that still haunt US…
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How the trial of the Colston Four was won: the inside story
The acquittal of four protesters in Bristol sparked fury from the government – and raised fresh questions about justice,…
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My grandmother, the quiet radical
How has motherhood evolved over the past 60 years? My gran’s experience – as recorded in her witty book…
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What the Nazis did next
Danny Orbach’s intriguing book Fugitives details how former Third Reich officers sold their services to the West – and…
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Following grey whales from Mexico to Alaska
In her new book Soundings, Doreen Cunningham documents the journey she took with her toddler along the 10,000-mile migration…
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Reviewed in short: New books by Douglas Stuart, Scholastique Mukasonga, Anna Qu and Margaret Willes
Young Mungo by Stuart, The Barefoot Woman by Mukasonga, Made in China by Qu and In the Shadow of…
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The marriage delusion
A new memoir describes it as “a slowly unfolding apocalypse”. Why are we so reluctant to reimagine matrimony?
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Birds II
A new short story from the award-winning novelist Jon McGregor.
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The NS Poem: A reply to Wallace Stevens, with a line from John Donne
A new poem by John Burnside.
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Raphael, the painter of perfection
He showed succeeding generations not just how art should be made but how an artist should live.
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With Benedetta, Paul Verhoeven proves he is as outrageous and iconoclastic as ever
The Dutch director’s latest sinful rampage follows a lesbian relationship in a 17th-century convent.
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House of Maxwell: a strange and revealing portrait of the media mogul
Colin Barr’s new series unearths a number of fascinating, monstrous details about Robert Maxwell's life.
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Life Goals is a joyous journey through our desert island kicks
On this podcast Theo Delaney, an ardent Spurs fan, deep-dives into his guests' relationship with football.
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The magic of pressing flowers in spring
In my decades-old hobby, I cut the head off an iris, spin the wingnuts on my press, and put…
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In a new global survey of mental health, the UK is slumped in last place
Economic prosperity is good, but only in countries that continue to cherish a thing called society.
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I lack most things in life, but have somehow acquired a third Swiss Army Knife
Of all the things the universe could have chosen to materialise on my bedside table, something I already have…
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After eight happy years of column writing, I think I’ll take that sabbatical
During lockdown writing this column was a refuge. Coming out the other end, it's time to try to make…
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Subscriber of the week: Charlotte Wood
Email ellys.woodhouse@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be the New Statesman's subscriber of the week.
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This England: Better late than never
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Lynda La Plante Q&A: “My Mastermind specialist subject? Serial killers”
The crime writer on Eleanor Roosevelt, dealing with rejection and the making of murderers.
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