The end of the affair: what next for Britain after Brexit?
Dragged out by the English, Britain is leaving the European Union. Is the multinational state set for a long…
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Over and out
Between toughness and talking: 75 years since Yalta
At the Yalta Conference 75 years ago, as the Red Army was taking control of eastern Europe, Churchill, Roosevelt…
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What Sun Tzu knew
Why an ancient Chinese text on warfare remains a favourite manual for policymakers from Donald Trump to Dominic Cummings.
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What Sunset Song taught me about myself and my country
Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic novel of love, war and rural life laid out the tensions between the old and…
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The insomnia problem
A vivid and disturbing memoir sheds light on our cultural anxiety about sleep.
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Jenny Offill’s Weather captures the anxiety and absurdity of the 21st century
Offill’s third novel zooms from the micro to the macro, taking the form of musings, jokes, trivia, confessions, facts,…
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Why business is always an act of sabotage
In finance, profits can only be made by defrauding customers, destroying competitors and capturing governments. In short, by sabotage.
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And God said
A new poem by Joe Carrick-Varty.
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Meeting the “real” George Orwell
A new series of BBC radio programmes hope to introduce us to the man behind the stories.
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Robert Eggers’ horror film The Lighthouse: style over substance?
Does this black and white film add up to anything more than a sustained stylistic experiment?
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The light and shade of Shostakovich
Igor Levit brings dramatic contrasts to his performance of the preludes and fugues in their entirety, which marked the…
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The relentlessly gynaecological joys of The Welkin
Set in 1759, this play is messy, ambitious and genre-bending.
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It’s Billie Eilish’s world. We’re just living in it
The Grammys simply reflect her existing influence; Billie Eilish is already shaping pop.
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The BBC’s The Windermere Children is a moving portrait of the children who survived the Holocaust
As this BBC drama makes clear, the adults who survived Nazi camps remembered life before the war. But the…
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“I’ve always had impostor syndrome“: Armando Iannucci on the establishment he once mocked
The satirist behind The Thick of It on Britain's reputation, immigration, and why he is no longer laughing at…
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First Thoughts: A new Sunday Times editor, 1917, and why England’s cricketers are no world-beaters
Emma Tucker’s appointment as Sunday Times editor means that a record five national newspapers are now edited by women.
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Commons Confidential: Trot flogging and dirty tricks
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The life and death of an All-Star: Remembering Kobe Bryant
Bryant was one of the world’s most revered athletes and an inspiring role model for many – but he…
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How dangerous is China’s new coronavirus to the world?
The disease is spreading with terrifying speed but crucial lessons have been learned from previous epidemics.
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The wild creatures that are our neighbours live far longer than we imagine
"The lives of birds are too rich to be to quiet madness in a pretty cage, thousands of miles…
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Jazz singers, the The’s “Uncertain Smile” and a night on the lash with an old pal
"This, I thought, is the kind of jazz I can live with."
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Pregnancy has me craving the smell of chlorine, and bubble bath
"I sit in meetings, imagining swimming pool water in my mouth."
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A new plan for GPs offered a brighter future, then the NHS sent the clouds rolling in
"GPs who had hitherto been prominent cheerleaders for the project let out a collective howl of dismay."
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Michael Cashman Q&A: “I was once a ragamuffin, running wild in the East End“
The Stonewall founder and life peer talks Philippe Sands, Jon Snow's ties and why love would be his Mastermind…
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Leader: Britain after Brexit
The Leave vote was an expression of profound economic and social discontent. But Brexit is a false panacea. It is not…
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Letter of the week: Scotland aflutter
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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Over the next decade existential questions about the monarchy will have to be answered
As the Queen herself said, the Crown is part of a constitution that is “puzzling” and “always will be”. It also…
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We don’t know how ardent Remainers will influence Britain’s future, but we know they will
While Brexit is a defeat for the “open”, it might yet come to be seen as the beginning of…
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Will Self’s Diary: Seeking the company of London’s homeless, and the gamble of post-Brexit Britain
Searching with an outreach worker for the rough sleepers hiding in flower beds and electricity cupboards, our eyes are drawn…
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Working-class well-being has been assaulted by the free market right and the liberal bourgeois
The right-wing attack on the well-being of the working class is well documented. Less has been said, though, about the…
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I can’t stand the earnest worship of books as objects – it’s literary posturing of the first degree
The “magic” of books isn’t in their physical form, but in their words. I have no problem using a…
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It’s impossible to live in a state of error-free perfection: the trick is to make the right mistakes
It can be liberating to accept that the whole trick of life is deciding how, not whether, to screw…
By Leader: Britain after Brexit
The Leave vote was an expression of profound economic and social discontent. But Brexit is a false panacea. It is not…
By Over the next decade existential questions about the monarchy will have to be answered
As the Queen herself said, the Crown is part of a constitution that is “puzzling” and “always will be”. It also…
By We don’t know how ardent Remainers will influence Britain’s future, but we know they will
While Brexit is a defeat for the “open”, it might yet come to be seen as the beginning of…
By Letter of the week: Scotland aflutter
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced…
By Commons Confidential: Trot flogging and dirty tricks
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
By “I’ve always had impostor syndrome“: Armando Iannucci on the establishment he once mocked
The satirist behind The Thick of It on Britain's reputation, immigration, and why he is no longer laughing at…
By First Thoughts: A new Sunday Times editor, 1917, and why England’s cricketers are no world-beaters
Emma Tucker’s appointment as Sunday Times editor means that a record five national newspapers are now edited by women.
By The life and death of an All-Star: Remembering Kobe Bryant
Bryant was one of the world’s most revered athletes and an inspiring role model for many – but he…
By Will Self’s Diary: Seeking the company of London’s homeless, and the gamble of post-Brexit Britain
Searching with an outreach worker for the rough sleepers hiding in flower beds and electricity cupboards, our eyes are drawn…
By Working-class well-being has been assaulted by the free market right and the liberal bourgeois
The right-wing attack on the well-being of the working class is well documented. Less has been said, though, about the…
By I can’t stand the earnest worship of books as objects – it’s literary posturing of the first degree
The “magic” of books isn’t in their physical form, but in their words. I have no problem using a…
By It’s impossible to live in a state of error-free perfection: the trick is to make the right mistakes
It can be liberating to accept that the whole trick of life is deciding how, not whether, to screw…
By Why business is always an act of sabotage
In finance, profits can only be made by defrauding customers, destroying competitors and capturing governments. In short, by sabotage.
By And God said
A new poem by Joe Carrick-Varty.
By It’s Billie Eilish’s world. We’re just living in it
The Grammys simply reflect her existing influence; Billie Eilish is already shaping pop.
By The relentlessly gynaecological joys of The Welkin
Set in 1759, this play is messy, ambitious and genre-bending.
By The light and shade of Shostakovich
Igor Levit brings dramatic contrasts to his performance of the preludes and fugues in their entirety, which marked the…
By Robert Eggers’ horror film The Lighthouse: style over substance?
Does this black and white film add up to anything more than a sustained stylistic experiment?
By The wild creatures that are our neighbours live far longer than we imagine
"The lives of birds are too rich to be to quiet madness in a pretty cage, thousands of miles…
By Pregnancy has me craving the smell of chlorine, and bubble bath
"I sit in meetings, imagining swimming pool water in my mouth."
By Jazz singers, the The’s “Uncertain Smile” and a night on the lash with an old pal
"This, I thought, is the kind of jazz I can live with."
By A new plan for GPs offered a brighter future, then the NHS sent the clouds rolling in
"GPs who had hitherto been prominent cheerleaders for the project let out a collective howl of dismay."
By Michael Cashman Q&A: “I was once a ragamuffin, running wild in the East End“
The Stonewall founder and life peer talks Philippe Sands, Jon Snow's ties and why love would be his Mastermind…
By Meeting the “real” George Orwell
A new series of BBC radio programmes hope to introduce us to the man behind the stories.
By The BBC’s The Windermere Children is a moving portrait of the children who survived the Holocaust
As this BBC drama makes clear, the adults who survived Nazi camps remembered life before the war. But the…
By How dangerous is China’s new coronavirus to the world?
The disease is spreading with terrifying speed but crucial lessons have been learned from previous epidemics.
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