The birth of a new political era
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are not the choice this country deserves after three years of Boris Johnson. Britain…
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Summer Special
Letter of the week: Creating climate resilience
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Nadine Dorries and the earrings of power
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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What summer in London taught me about loss
As a child newly arrived in the capital from Nigeria, the season seemed expansive and intoxicating. Now I realise…
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Ian Hislop’s Diary: The talented Mr Pooter, Spike Milligan’s chaos, and heaven vs Lewisham
I considered starting this diary: “Very hot. Today was a day of annoyance. Boris Johnson has not left No…
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Adrienne Buller: “Green capitalism is its own form of denial”
The Canadian author discusses her new book The Value of a Whale and why markets won’t save the world.
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What Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are getting wrong about Brexit
Editor's Note: In their race to the right, the Conservative leadership candidates are misreading the times.
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Chris Pilcher: An inspirational teacher
Editor's Note: Sometimes you encounter someone, however fleetingly, who leaves a deep impression. Since meeting Mr Pilcher, I have…
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If the Tory leadership race produces an Asian prime minister, we might have something to celebrate
In the troubled passage towards living together in a multicultural democracy, Rishi Sunak’s election would be a moment to…
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The rules of the new politics are simple: say nothing of substance, do nothing at all
Our government has gone missing in action, though I use the term “action” loosely.
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In the sleek, luxurious world of athleisure, aspiration hides something much darker
Brands that sanitise their image with New Age jargon have been getting away with hypocrisy for too long.
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Intellectual snobbery is hobbling support for Ukraine
Commentators such as Jordan Peterson and Jürgen Habermas are ignoring the truth about Russia’s war.
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No one has the honour in golf’s civil war
Players joining the Saudi-funded LIV Golf tour are revealing the avarice and elitism at the heart of their sport.
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Summer reflection: the silence of the seabirds
In my lifetime, seabirds have symbolised one thing above all: pollution.
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Lisa Nandy: “I disliked the cults around Blair and Corbyn: one man doesn’t change things”
On the road in Wigan, the shadow minister talks levelling up, the Tory leadership – and how Labour can…
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A fatal attraction
Thomas Mann, German identity and the romantic allure of Russia.
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A battle for the soul of English cricket
When the former Yorkshire bowler Azeem Rafiq blew the whistle on racism, resignations and inquiries followed. Has anything changed?
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The rise of JD Vance – from hillbilly to Capitol Hill
His memoir Hillbilly Elegy was a bestseller; now he’s a Trumpist with political ambitions. Is James David Vance the…
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My abortion showed me that women in Britain are far from free
We are told that the overturning of Roe vs Wade means nothing for liberal Britain, but the impulse to…
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Afghanistan after the fall
A year since the Taliban took Kabul, they have learned that they cannot shut out the West.
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Philip Larkin at 100
Writers reflect on the poet’s life, work and legacy, a century after his birth.
Nietzsche before the breakdown
In the 1880s, the ailing philosopher prophesied the West’s violent decline – but not even he could prevent it.
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The NS Poem: Kindertransport
A new poem by Craig Raine.
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Nora Ephron and the art of self-narrative
The writer and film-maker poured her life into her journalism and romcoms. What can a new biography tell us…
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The rise and fall of Lex Greensill
How David Cameron’s favourite banker became the focus of a billion-dollar scandal.
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Reviewed in short: New books from Jonathan Freedland, Kate Molleson, Linda Villarosa and Benjamin Wood
The Escape Artist by Freedland, Sound Within Sound by Molleson, Under the Skin by Villarosa and The Young Accomplice…
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The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: how Putin exploited a wartime myth
There are echoes of the invasion of Ukraine in the epic battle for Stalingrad, but this time Russia is…
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The best children’s books for summer 2022
Magic and nature help children confront their fears in the best new books for young readers.
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How the Lindisfarne Gospels became an emblem of Englishness
The spectacular 8th-century illuminated book is returning home to the north, after 500 years in London.
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Édouard Louis: “I dream of a world without politics”
The French literary celebrity on shame, autobiography and why his family abandoned the far right.
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The return of the road-trip movie
Hit the Road and Joyride both have a long-distance car ride at their centre – but one takes a…
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The Newsreader: the authentic din of an 80s Aussie newsroom
This Australian drama, now on the BBC, is well-written, well-acted, and gorgeous to look at.
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BBC Radio 4’s Party’s Over is a perfectly timed tale of a disgraced prime minister
Imagining the escapades of a fictional failed politician provides ample opportunity to comment on some real ones.
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I have relinquished control of my garden – and what it has done is beautiful
I would have preferred the poppies to have returned rather than the tree spinach, but the pink hollyhocks are…
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Swapping the sunshine for the dark fatalism of Kurt Vonnegut
In Unstuck in Time, a new documentary about the writer, Vonnegut says he prefers laughter to crying – and…
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Here’s a tip to allay anxiety about the heatwave: receive a death threat
It is interesting having something to worry about other than money or not getting laid. It puts things into…
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This England: Hot property
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Subscriber of the Week: Dan Wright
Email ellys.woodhouse@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be the New Statesman's subscriber of the week.
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Cold War Steve’s Q&A: “I still have a strong affection for the sound of a tent zip”
The artist discusses his hero Gary Shaw, living in the Regency era and wishing someone else could drive his…
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