Leader: The rout of the libertarians
Trussonomics has imploded and those who advocated it deserve to be haunted by this abject humiliation.
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State of Emergency
Letter of the week: The damage done
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Will we soon have vaccines for cancer?
BioNTech is attempting to deploy the vaccination technology it developed for Covid as a weapon against malignancy.
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Elif Shafak’s Diary: Solidarity with Iranian women, Instagram anxiety, and a turn at the Booker Prize ceremony
An unexpected link to a schoolgirl killed in Afghanistan is a reminder that we are all citizens of the…
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Amitav Ghosh: “Climate change is becoming an all-out war”
The Indian novelist reflects on the impact of colonialism on the natural world, and looks to the young for…
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A broken and humiliated Tory party turns back to Jeremy Hunt, the last Cameroon
Unlike Liz Truss, the new Chancellor is a serious and measured politician.
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The failure of Trussonomics shows Britain is European, not American, at heart
The UK should look to the Netherlands for inspiration: it is both richer and more equal.
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The death of global Britain
The Conservative government has long celebrated the UK’s exceptionalism, but this false belief has led the country to ruin
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A bonfire of delusions
If the Tories fail to learn the right lessons from the collapse of Trussonomics, they face electoral oblivion.
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“Global problems must be tackled through global collaboration”: Ai Weiwei on his New Statesman cover
The artist explains the thinking behind his original work, and how art can help in the fight against climate…
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Greta Thunberg: “Our politicians will not come to the rescue of planet Earth”
The UK has a special responsibility to lead on the climate crisis. But it prefers to deny, delay and…
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“I haven’t met a politician ready to do what it takes”: Greta Thunberg and Björk in conversation
The world’s leading voice for climate action and its most original singer-songwriter discuss greenwashing, fame, Cop27, music and the…
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Generation Greta: the school strike that went global
The youth movement Fridays for Future has grown into an international force for change. Here, seven activists share their…
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Why climate despair is a luxury
Those facing flood and fire can’t afford to lose hope. Neither should we.
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Robin Wall Kimmerer: “How strange to be a species that engineers its own demise”
The influential essayist and moss scientist on what nature can teach us about survival.
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Seven ways to make leaders act on the climate
Adam McKay, Mary Robinson, Vanessa Nakate and others share their solutions.
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Letter from Brazil: the rainforest fights back
Jair Bolsonaro’s rule has been disastrous for the Amazon. But the remote communities who live there are gaining ground.
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Margaret Atwood: Why I write dystopias
The Booker winner’s novels tend to imagine bleaker futures. Why not create something more optimistic?
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The Passenger: The phantom world of Cormac McCarthy
In The Passenger, his first novel for 16 years, the great American writer offers a study of living without…
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The NS Poem: Cicadas
A new poem by Kathleen Ossip.
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What we lose without the dark
Johan Eklöf’s The Darkness Manifesto shows how artificial light is harming the natural world – and what we can…
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How oil become the world’s most contested resource
Keith Fisher’s A Pipeline Runs Through It charts how oil revolutionised transport and war, and continues to shape today’s…
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A new age of climate migration
In Nomad Century, Gaia Vince argues we must prepare now for environmental migration on an unprecedented scale.
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From Anthony Quinn to Andrey Kurkov: recent books reviewed in short
Also featuring No Choice: Becca Andrews on the right to abortion, and Servants of the Damned by David Enrich.
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The natural world is vanishing before it has even reached our eyes
From resentful crows to narwhal tusks, we understand only a fraction of the Earth’s beauty. And now we risk…
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Jews. In their Own Words is a sharp illustration of how the oldest hatred is still with us
Jonathan Freedland’s play considers the prejudicial myths fuelling anti-Semitism today, and how the Royal Court became complicit.
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Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin: a brilliantly nasty Irish fable
The director reunites Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell in a timeless film full of heartbreaking sunsets and superb knitwear.
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Channel 4’s Somewhere Boy is a rich and strange fairy tale for our times
Subtle and clever, Pete Jackson’s ambitious series centres on a teenager liberated from an enforced seclusion.
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BBC Radio 4’s Raiders of the Lost Archive explores the world of “audio archaeologists” and missing tapes
In a tape-filled attic, Roger Bickerton finds 94 instalments of Desert Island Discs.
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How Morrissey became irrelevant
At a gig in south London, the singer seemed trapped by nostalgia for his early career – and a…
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Subscriber of the week: Joseph Hearn
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After a visit to the theatre I feel more of a Brightonian than I did the day before
I’d never been to the Theatre Royal before, but its a delightful, old-school place.
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I’m a grown woman who can’t stop listening to Disney songs. How did I get here?
At 28 I am twirling around the room, wagging my finger as I wail along with princesses Elsa, Ariel…
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This England: Have you for breakfast
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Andreas Malm Q&A: “Sweden is the sickest country in the Global North”
The author and academic on Malcolm X, Swedish politics and being happiest in the womb.
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