Going it alone in a foreign land
To friends, I framed my upcoming solo trip to Japan as an elaborate success: a woman unexpectedly dumped, taking off on…
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Power to the people
Rise of the new working-class Tories
Can Boris Johnson’s Conservatives really hold on to former Labour voters in the party’s old heartlands?
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The Lisbon lament: Britain’s oldest ally on the eve of Brexit
Once a backward country in the grip of a grim dictatorship, Portugal has become a hot spot for tech…
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Corbyn adviser Andrew Murray on what’s next for the left
Andrew Murray, the committed communist and Corbyn adviser, on Labour’s defeat, reclaiming patriotism and the End of History.
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Oliver Cromwell, the man who wouldn’t be king
For Cromwell, getting rid of Charles I was the easy bit. What came next was the problem.
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Deborah Orr’s Motherwell: a memoir of family insights and dark asides
Motherwell is a beautifully written – if frustrating – portrait of a quintessential Seventies working-class childhood.
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American pop icons and the dark side of fame
From Elvis to Prince, the music stars who burnt out in the limelight.
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JM Coetzee’s The Death of Jesus: a fitting conclusion to a great trilogy
Coetzee’s trilogy of deadpan, present tense, fable-like fantasies, culminates in his extraordinary new novel The Death of Jesus.
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Rob Doyle’s Threshold: colourful but self-indulgent tales of debauchery
Structured like a travelogue interspersed with epistolary fragments, Threshold is an autobiographical novel reminiscent of Ben Lerner.
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A World Without Work: technology and the future of unemployment
Many jobs existing today will not vanish completely and new ones will be established, including those we have not…
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How We Programmed the Apocalypse
A new poem by Zoë Hitzig.
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The dizzying highs and painful lows of Cheer
The Netflix documentary knows cheerleading is brutal, even when it is tinged with magic.
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The Personal History of David Copperfield: a brisk and breezy take on Dickens
Armando Iannucci’s adaptation finds joy, even if it loses some of the darkness of the novel.
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Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Lab is one of the creepiest things I’ve ever seen on television
And I’m old enough to remember the Krankies.
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World Wise Web: the radio show that unleashes teenage interviewers on tech pioneers
It might sound like a gimmick, but this is a powerfully valid approach to conversations about technology.
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“There’s only one United,” they sing at Old Trafford. Not true, there’s another 12 of them
Our commentators, too, act as if there is only one sodding United.
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Tim Burgess Q&A: “I used to think music was a form of witchcraft“
The musician talks Barack Obama, Twin Peaks and teleportation.
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Disillusioned as ever, I’ve returned from New York to nothing but talk of Harry and Meghan
People have spoken of only the royals, with interludes in which to snigger about Gwyneth Paltrow’s vagina-scented candles.
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Turns out I’m a poet of mature disappointment. Especially on national Divorce Day
My amusement at finding myself soundtracking such a happy day coincided with my becoming hooked on a podcast about unhappy…
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The 2010s saw clean eating, small plates, veganism and the war on straws. What’s next for food culture?
Sandwiches, apparently. As well as trends ranging from the vague (“sour”) to the very specific (pea milk), say “experts”.
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Sepsis: the rise of a global killer
The heightened fear reflects our evolving knowledge of life-threatening infectious diseases.
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The downfall of an ogre: Gabriel Matzneff and the myth of male seduction
The 83-year-old French writer has spent his career celebrating his sexual relations with minors. Now France is finally confronting…
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The free trade delusion
The UK may believe it can play the US and the EU off against each other. But it will soon collide with…
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Letter of the Week: Energy solution
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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Leader: The limits of green capitalism
The notion that the climate crisis can be resolved through voluntary action, rather than state intervention, is an illusion.
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The American sports start-up the Athletic is disrupting papers as Sky did the legacy broadcasters
It is all about quality and original content.
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Lisa Nandy’s Diary: Listening for Labour, why 40 seconds is not a debate, and how green is the route to red
To earn the trust of communities that once proudly returned Labour MPs means we need a leader who is…
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In order to write, I have to make sacrifices and I’m learning to accept those losses
What you leave out is as important as what you choose to include.
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Solving global inequality through vacuous buzzwords: welcome to the new “Woke Davos”
Heads are scratched, hands are wrung, technological fixes and buzzword-heavy solutions are offered.
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The Tories are worrying about how to hold on to their new voters, but it may be easier than they think
Those former Labour supporters who backed the Conservatives aren’t in search of a new economic settlement – just a better-kept…
By In order to write, I have to make sacrifices and I’m learning to accept those losses
What you leave out is as important as what you choose to include.
By The American sports start-up the Athletic is disrupting papers as Sky did the legacy broadcasters
It is all about quality and original content.
By Sepsis: the rise of a global killer
The heightened fear reflects our evolving knowledge of life-threatening infectious diseases.
By How We Programmed the Apocalypse
A new poem by Zoë Hitzig.
By Lisa Nandy’s Diary: Listening for Labour, why 40 seconds is not a debate, and how green is the route to red
To earn the trust of communities that once proudly returned Labour MPs means we need a leader who is…
By Rob Doyle’s Threshold: colourful but self-indulgent tales of debauchery
Structured like a travelogue interspersed with epistolary fragments, Threshold is an autobiographical novel reminiscent of Ben Lerner.
By The free trade delusion
The UK may believe it can play the US and the EU off against each other. But it will soon collide with…
By The downfall of an ogre: Gabriel Matzneff and the myth of male seduction
The 83-year-old French writer has spent his career celebrating his sexual relations with minors. Now France is finally confronting…
By A World Without Work: technology and the future of unemployment
Many jobs existing today will not vanish completely and new ones will be established, including those we have not…
By The dizzying highs and painful lows of Cheer
The Netflix documentary knows cheerleading is brutal, even when it is tinged with magic.
By The Personal History of David Copperfield: a brisk and breezy take on Dickens
Armando Iannucci’s adaptation finds joy, even if it loses some of the darkness of the novel.
By Letter of the Week: Energy solution
A selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced…
By World Wise Web: the radio show that unleashes teenage interviewers on tech pioneers
It might sound like a gimmick, but this is a powerfully valid approach to conversations about technology.
By Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Lab is one of the creepiest things I’ve ever seen on television
And I’m old enough to remember the Krankies.
By Solving global inequality through vacuous buzzwords: welcome to the new “Woke Davos”
Heads are scratched, hands are wrung, technological fixes and buzzword-heavy solutions are offered.
By The 2010s saw clean eating, small plates, veganism and the war on straws. What’s next for food culture?
Sandwiches, apparently. As well as trends ranging from the vague (“sour”) to the very specific (pea milk), say “experts”.
By The Tories are worrying about how to hold on to their new voters, but it may be easier than they think
Those former Labour supporters who backed the Conservatives aren’t in search of a new economic settlement – just a better-kept…
By Disillusioned as ever, I’ve returned from New York to nothing but talk of Harry and Meghan
People have spoken of only the royals, with interludes in which to snigger about Gwyneth Paltrow’s vagina-scented candles.
By Turns out I’m a poet of mature disappointment. Especially on national Divorce Day
My amusement at finding myself soundtracking such a happy day coincided with my becoming hooked on a podcast about unhappy…
By Leader: The limits of green capitalism
The notion that the climate crisis can be resolved through voluntary action, rather than state intervention, is an illusion.
By “There’s only one United,” they sing at Old Trafford. Not true, there’s another 12 of them
Our commentators, too, act as if there is only one sodding United.
By Tim Burgess Q&A: “I used to think music was a form of witchcraft“
The musician talks Barack Obama, Twin Peaks and teleportation.
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