Leader: How to reverse British decline
Rather than indulging in post-imperial fantasies, Britain should learn from those mid-sized economies that are both richer and more…
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Sunak Under Siege
Letter of the week: Growth to nowhere
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Will more Red Wall Tories defect to Labour as funds dry up?
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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What China’s devastating Covid outbreak means for the rest of the world
The true scale of the country’s current wave and the failures of its “zero Covid” policy pose a threat…
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Howard Jacobson’s Diary: Escaping an icy fate in the Highlands, celebrity-spotting in London, and my soft spot for the King
Finding poetic consolation on a quest for snow, solace and Santa.
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“This country doesn’t invest in its own future”: Torsten Bell on why the UK is being hit hardest
The Resolution Foundation head explains why the average British household is forecast to be worse off than its Slovenian…
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In this time of conflict, I recall my late mother’s Christian wisdom and kindness
Although we often disagreed about politics, she taught me that in this age of frenzy it’s safer to be…
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Fifty years after joining the European Communities, Britain still doesn’t know what it is or wants
Britain’s unresolved Europe question is inseparable from its unresolved England question.
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With the buccal fat fixation we have reached peak insecurity
This year, let’s make a resolution to accept, rather than “improve”, our bodies.
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Can Rishi Sunak survive the wrath of the right?
This year will be one in which Boris Johnson and Liz Truss’s supporters exact revenge upon the Prime Minister.
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The global affairs forecast for 2023: Crisis in Taiwan and Joe Biden’s second run
The New Statesman’s predictions for a turbulent year on the world stage.
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The politics forecast for 2023: A crisis in the Tory party and a Labour reshuffle
Predictions for the year ahead from the New Statesman’s deputy political editor.
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The business forecast for 2023: An inflation rollercoaster and Elon Musk’s Twitter break-up
Predictions for a bumpy year ahead from the New Statesman’s business editor.
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The geopolitical forecast for 2023: Divisions in the West and unrest on Russia’s borders
Predictions for a tumultuous year ahead.
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Nietzsche, narwhals and the burden of consciousness
Justin Gregg’s witty exploration of animal intelligence is a useful guide – but there is more to human life…
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The NS Poem: Tender
A new poem by Sarah Fletcher.
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From General Electric to the gender health gap: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring the new poetry collection by Hannah Sullivan and Hotel Milano by Tim Parks.
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The best non-fiction books for 2023
From politics and Big Tech to history and identity, the essential books for the year ahead.
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The best fiction books for 2023
The year’s publishing highlights, including new novels by Salman Rushdie, Diana Evans and Eleanor Catton.
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The Year of the Cat: feline fellowship and the meaning of life
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s memoir of adopting a kitten doubles as a study of anxiety, parenthood and purpose.
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The Britpop nostalgia complex
The writer who christened the genre watched its droll ingenuity become boorish excess. Is it ripe for resurrection?
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The sad homogeneity of the “easy peeler”
This vague description suggests the fruit was selected for the thickness of its skin, rather than the juiciness or…
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Empire of Light is a clumsy love letter to cinema
Set in a fictional picture house in Margate, Sam Mendes’s drama is an ode to great film. It’s just…
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Happy Valley is back – and still richer and deeper than any other police procedural
Sarah Lancashire’s performance is marvellous in Sally Wainwright’s small town saga.
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Susan Cooper’s land of shadows
BBC Sounds brings to life the folkloric fantasy The Dark is Rising, with vivid and immersive storytelling.
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Last year ended as disastrously as it began. So why am I already nostalgic for it?
The past year appears to me as a series of soft-focus montage moments; less pain, more days of celebration…
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At Christmas I meet a kindred spirit – we both have more to look back on than forward to
The family’s new dog took to sitting at my feet and looking up at me, as if to say:…
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This England: Santa jam
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: Ian Fraser
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Juliet Davenport’s Q&A: “We humans have a lemming tendency”
The green entrepreneur on why communication matters in science and how we’re being let down by our politicians.
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