
Britain’s tax delusion
It is useless to pretend that in a world of high public debt voters can be spared increased taxes.
ByNew Times,
New Thinking.
It is useless to pretend that in a world of high public debt voters can be spared increased taxes.
ByWrite to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
ByYour weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
ByHe strengthens himself by weakening supporters, rivals and the United States.
ByAlso this week: A close encounter with Labour luvvies, and chaos at the British Museum.
ByThe MP and former political secretary to Boris Johnson reflects on the Tories’ decline.
ByHer resignation statement marked the end of the Johnson era.
ByThe wars between Finland and Soviet Russia in the 1940s hold lessons on how peace might be achieved today.
ByHiding among waxy coats and mud-encrusted boots, I spent two blissful hours without my phone and the internet.
ByThe UK’s tax system entrenches inequality, stymies growth, and rewards a few at the expense of the many.
ByYevgeny Prigozhin’s assassination won’t help Russia’s flailing war effort in Ukraine.
ByThe author’s first period piece, The Fraud, is curiously absent of her usual strengths. Was her heart really in…
ByAlso featuring National Dish by Anya von Bremzen and Metropolitan by Andrew Martin.
ByIn a forceful account of political scandals and injustices, May skewers her enemies and owns her mistakes.
ByBuilt on imperial amnesia and competing nationalisms, the EU has never been the beacon of inclusion it claims to…
ByThe author on the hedonism of Britpop and the long shadow of his brother’s suicide.
ByThe director’s art-house film concerns a catastrophic ménage-a-trois.
ByIreland’s unfathomably cruel “mother and baby homes” are here just as set-dressing for a shlocky horror – as if…
ByIts pious concern masking voyeuristic excitement, the in-depth trial coverage is typical “true crime entertainment”.
ByA modest candle of quirkiness and affordability has been snuffed out, so the capital can have another luxury hotel.
ByMartin Scorsese’s film may be about the Band, but when Joni plays you feel the confidence burning off her…
ByEven with the Prem to distract me, I am still anxious about how the England women’s team are coping.
ByThis column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
ByPlease email zuzanna.lachendro@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be the New Statesman’s subscriber of the week.
ByThe musician on the former secretary of state for Northern Ireland, her love of the Sopranos and being painted…
By