Leader: The long shadow of 9/11
After 20 years of failed interventionism and a humiliation in Afghanistan, Joe Biden's US may have found a role…
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The Eternal Empire
Letter of the week: The myths of lost Labour
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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Lithium will be as era-defining as oil, and China is dominating its supply
Lithium batteries are fundamental to 21st-century industrial economies. The geopolitical effects are already being felt, and the West is…
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Boris Johnson’s government lacks the necessary imagination to reform social care
Ministers want to fix social care, but it comes with a sign reading: “Do not touch”.
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Both leaders are entering the new political season on the wrong side of their parties
While Boris Johnson cannot deliver bad news, Keir Starmer struggles to rouse enthusiasm. Now, they each have a point…
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The Texas abortion ban is a threat to women everywhere
The new law provides a template for “pro-life” measures that will ruin and even end women’s lives.
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Abba are back – with the old magic intact
Nostalgic, luxurious and mind-bogglingly complicated, Abba’s new music maintains its legacy of stadium hooks and pop song intelligence.
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How I was expelled from Russia
Russia is entering a dark new period in which it no longer pretends to be a democracy.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: “If you disagree with the left, you’re punished”
The author and activist on culture wars, immigration and misogyny.
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The new age of American power
Despite forecasts of decline following the Afghanistan withdrawal, the US military is planning another century of global domination.
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Hilary Mantel: “I had to be in middle age to imagine what the weight of life does to you”
The Booker Prize-winning author on late fame, her mother’s death and the books she is yet to write.
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How the war on terror led to the forever wars
Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks, the West is confused and in retreat
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In her new novel, Sally Rooney looks her critics in the eye
Beautiful World, Where Are You despairs at the shallowness of fiction – and then embraces it.
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How to survive an apocalypse
Bruno Maçães believes Covid has shattered the world order. But states are coping with the “end times” better than…
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Is climate writing too obsessed with “the science”?
The overwhelming evidence of global warming is the biggest problem that deniers face.
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Reviewed in short: New books by Bobby Duffy, Paul Kenyon, Carol Leonnig and Claire-Louise Bennett
Generations: Does When You’re Born Shape Who You Are? by Duffy, Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic…
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How private schools create Britain’s emotionally stunted leaders
Boarding schools force boys to become cynical and detached. Then they grow up to run the country.
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How Paul Sandby painted Britain as he saw it
The 18th-century artist revealed the possibilities of both watercolour and the British landscape.
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A new docuseries captures 9/11 minute by minute
9/11: One Day in America forces the viewer to experience the attacks in painful detail.
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BBC drama The North Water is bloody and brutal
Ice-cold and uncompromising, this series is grim enough to go out after the 9pm watershed.
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Power Corrupts is back – with a third series about a billion-dollar island
The podcast deals in unscrupulous politicians, villains hiding in plain sight, and stories of exploitation so sensational you’ll struggle…
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Britain is surrounded by fish – so why do we eat so little of it?
It seems that once people had the choice to eat meat instead, they grabbed it with both hands.
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This England: Too big for his boots
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s Richard II, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Onstage for the first time since the pandemic, my public and private selves are in conflict
Halfway through my interview at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, I have an awful moment when I seem to…
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Sitting among the curious characters in A&E, I realise I’m just as curious as them
Most intriguing are the prisoner and prison officer. I am dying to hear what they are saying.
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Subscriber of the Week: Alexander Bullett
Email ellys.woodhouse@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be the New Statesman's Subscriber of the Week.
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Richard Osman Q&A: “Do any New Statesman readers have a spare right knee?”
Richard Osman was born in Essex in 1970 and is a host on quiz shows including Pointless, which he…
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